Working in mixed media on canvas, my practice explores painting as a polyphonic and interruptive form. I am interested in how images hold multiple temporalities at once: the remembered past, the constructed present and the imagined future.  Each painting becomes a form of auto-fiction - part lived experience, part invention, where competing voices and histories converge.

Writing is both a research method and a generative tool.  Literature provides the initial catalyst from which I develop polyphonic scripts that become the conceptual framework for each painting.   These texts gather voices from family conversations, artists, writers, politics, popular culture and everyday life.  The writing creates an associative framework where disparate references and experiences are brought into dialogue before being translated into paint.

My practice changed significantly towards the end of my MA. I initially brought disassociated images together through collage, but as literature became increasingly important, the paintings became more literal.  I began adding modular canvases in response to associations emerging through the writing and painting.  These could be rearranged or rotated, introducing fragmentation and allowing unexpected relationships to form between their parts.

Wanting to further resist a fixed narrative and create greater ambiguity, I then began disrupting the imagery through abstraction, painting over and obscuring elements.

The resulting semi-abstract, modular paintings combine figuration, abstraction and collage. They invite viewers to move between overlapping images and time frames, making connections and interpretations of their own.  Through their layered construction, the works reflect the disjointed experience of contemporary life.