Project Summary:
My practice explores human behaviour, development and our relationship to the places we inhabit. I draw ideas from social anthropology, psychology and folklore. I primarily work in printmaking, bringing photography and drawing into traditional processes such as copper lithography, etching and screenprint. Over time I have expanded my printmaking practice to work with sound, installation, experimental drawing and collage. A large part of my practice involves working with people directly, in communities, schools or with socially engaged organisations, often with well-being as a theme.
I am keen on creating immersive, multi-sensory installations which bring different threads of work together to form a story or pose a question. Over the course of my residency I will be exploring the value of children’s self led play in natural, wild spaces. A series of site specific engagements with local children, as well as some dedicated observation of my own, will inform a series of prints, a binaural sound piece and a fragrance designed to evoke our inner memories of childhood exploration of wild spaces.
I intend to locally source pigment and foraged plant matter to create inks, papers and scent myself- with the sound piece comprising field recordings, archival recordings collected by the British Library and original music