I am moved by how soft, vulnerable materials can hold and emanate deeply charged emotions. Through making, I am searching for ways to materialise sensation. The works that grow from this are not representations but embodiments. For this reason, questions of care and empathy are at the heart of my practice.

I work directly with my hands, embedding pastel into paper, which I fold, unfurl, soak and rub until the tactile sensibilities of surface and structure resonate with the experiences I am exploring. My works emerge from an accumulation of action and erasure, contemplation and somatic movement, and are guided by visceral reactions to colour.

Through my practice I consider how the body stores and can transform trauma, how we exchange care and connection through touch, and the impact of non-consensual touch. Above all, it is sustained by a desire to engage with and share our astonishing capacity to empathise.