An Alternative Statement:

I am an artist based in the UK. Sometimes I create large kinetic installation, but not always. Sometimes I make politically conscious pieces, but not always. I often work with paper, but not always.

Various brain and body stuff I won’t bore you with means I inhabit somewhat of a parallel world to most of humanity. I like to explore how we experience reality and the world around us. Although many are conceptual in nature, my pieces tend to be experiential, and visceral, and emotionally charged; sometimes they resonate with the organic or impart a sense of the uncanny. The best way I can put it, is that I’m trying to make you feel concepts.

I work in a variety of media, but am most known (amongst the very few to whom I am known) for paper interventions. They are fragile and ephemeral, and rely on photographic recording. The practice of making them verges on the performative because of the very repetitive and lengthy nature of the making (particularly in comparison to the short-lived result) as well as the sometimes absurd difficulty of placing the paper in the environment. They inhabit a hinterland between installation, performance, and photography.

Over the years, coming back to materials and forms means I now have what might coalesce into a sculptural vocabulary. Most notably cones – some think of me as ‘the cone lady’. Also eggshells; paper in many forms. More recently, I have added porcelain. At least it’s archival if not robust (perhaps it’s robust when not threaded on springs or bouncing rods…)

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