About

I am an interdisciplinary artist working across moving-image, collage, sound and performance. I am also pursuing research in the intersection between (Wittgenstinian) Philosophy and (Winnicottian) psychoanalytic theory. In my artistic and academic work I explore issues relating to language-use, social understanding, psychological and psychoanalytic narratives. I am particularly interested in the way that unusual or complex psychological and emotional experiences can bring into question our understanding of reality and how we relate to it.

Across different media, I use a collage methodology, combining original, created components (shot film, recorded performance, painting and writing) with found elements, including archival material, field recordings and text. I place segments of highly constructed and conceptually-loaded material in opposition to visceral, unembellished elements, creating an experience for the viewer that, in questioning the norms and constructions of society, simultaneously might expose the most basic and traumatic structures of our psychology.

Across my individual and participatory practices, I draw on my own experiences of complex trauma and existing in the context of institutions of care (e.g. residential schools, mental healthcare). As such, I am interested in creative and community spaces as potential “third spaces” where complex personal and political knots may be worked through, and new realities imagined.

I am, and have been, part of several collaborative projects and collectives. I am currently one half of Dreamwreck (collaboration with musician Canaan Balsam) – our first EP ‘Death Drive’ was released under Modern Obscure Music and we are currently working on an album. Previous collaborations include Design Yourself (cross-disciplinary collective originally founded by digital artist Antonio Roberts producing work exploring the human relationship to technology) and Concrete Assembly (curatorial collective programming interdisciplinary exhibitions and events showcasing the work of emerging and under-represented artists).