Artist statement

My practice is focused on exploring emotion, mindfulness, intuition, and play. The objects I create hold my emotions from a specific moment released via action. Mirroring the intangible qualities of emotion by using chance I  “destroy” the vessels I make, capturing the event in print and vessel alike. A constant loop of taking and releasing control. I exaggerate the properties of the clay, the raw unglazed surfaces, the fluidity, the cracked and broken, and the imprints left by my hands. The natural qualities and reaction of the material reflect the humanness of emotion. Creating the vessels is an act of mindfulness, grounding my emotions by focusing only on meticulously crafting. Destroying the vessels offers a space for play, to release control. This process-focused practice is healing for me. I am interested in using making and “destroying” as a form of connection. Using creativity as a tool to connect rather than to create physical things. To centre the experience and emotion. Using objects made or otherwise to form relationships between the object/s and events to forge a deeper sense of connection to myself, others and the world. This might look like finished or temporary objects as a result of an event or emotion. All of this is echoed in my current work as I explore this connection personally. 

Previous exhbitions/events

Unveiled: Stories Behind the Silence / Firepit Gallery, London

6th - 27th November 2025

Autumn Almanac V / Persistence works, Sheffield

24th October - 16th November 2025

Great Northern Contemporary Craft & Art Fair / Newcastle

20-22 June 2025

Saltaire Makers Fair/ Victoria Hall, Saltaire

24th-26th May 2025

The Fronteer Open 2024 / Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield

20th November - 7th December 2024

HIDDEN / The House of Smalls, Edinburgh

21st November - 22nd December 2024

Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair / Online Edition

7th -8th December 2024

Autumn Almanac IV / Exchange Place Studios, Sheffield

2nd - 24th November 2024

Yorkshire Artspace - Open Studios / Exchange Palace studios, Sheffield

16th-17th November 2024

 BLACK & WHITE / Fox Yard Studio - Art Gallery, Stowmarket

11th -18th October 2024

Autumn Open / Badger in the Wall Gallery, Lancaster

26th September - 2nd November 2024

Sheffield Ceramics Festival / Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield 

6th-7th April 2024

Yorkshire Artspace - Open Studios / Exchange Palace studios, Sheffield

18th-19th November 2023

Learning together | Creating together / University for the Creative Arts, Farnham

1st-31st October 2023

Part of the Farnham October Craft Month 2023 

Farnham Graduation Show / University for the Creative Arts, Farnham

8-21 June 2023

​Behind the Scenes / 17 Lion&Lamb Yard, Farnham, Surrey 

10-12 February 2023

Connext - Joint Ceramic & Glass Exhibition /Art & Design centre West, Nagoya University of the Arts, 281 Koi, Kumanosho, Kitanagoya-shi,
Aichi-ken 481-8503, Japan 

15-20 July 2022

​The Exhibition of Exchange Students / Art & Design centre West, Nagoya University of the Arts, 281 Koi, Kumanosho, Kitanagoya-shi,
Aichi-ken 481-8503, Japan

8-13 July 2022