My sculptural practice includes wall murals, ceramics, writing, performance and film to create installations and environments that explore connection.
As a mother of identical neurodiverse teenage twins, recently diagnosed with autism myself, I have turned isolation into opportunity. The rural town of Dursley is the backdrop to our home educating journey and is an extension to my studio at Spike Island, Bristol. It's a rich source of materials, locations and knowledge, instigated by a chance conversation with Louise, a local master wig-maker, with whom I made Mum! Mum!.
My ongoing project, The Mother as Stunt Performer, is a generous, gentle and complex study of mothering, identity, loss, gain and unconditional love through the lens of neurodiversity. An expansive body of new work exploring adaptive care and education in a broken system, expertise as protection and hope through radical connection.
The Stunt Performer’s paradox, where illusionary techniques deny their existence to the audience, creating a cloak of invisibility suturing them to their star, mirrors my experience as a mother where my use of repetition, rehearsal and visualisation is coupled to my removal from the frame.
Working with unconditional love and care, foregrounds hope, looking beyond trauma, to ways we can build communities through shared support, experience and knowledge.
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