About

Artist Statement

My practice operates as both personal expression and social critique. It emerges from a state of troubled bewilderment at the present moment—one shaped by climate crisis and mass extinction, widening inequality, mass displacement, the accelerating presence of AI, the enduring consequences of colonialism, and the erosion of democratic institutions under late capitalism. These forces jostle for attention, response, and action, producing a landscape that feels unstable, contradictory, and unresolved.

My work sits at the intersection of absurdity, identity, and socio-political critique. I bring disparate systems—cultural, political, material, and aesthetic—into conversation in order to expose their internal tensions, contradictions, and latent absurdities. Through juxtaposition and hybridity, I explore what becomes visible when divergent paradigms collide.

Absurdity, play, and contradiction are not forms of escape in my work; they are strategies of resistance. They allow me to acknowledge the irrationality of contemporary systems without surrendering to despair. I use humour, dissonance, and formal instability to surface the ambiguities and disparities of the public sphere, creating space for empathy, curiosity, and critical questioning. I am particularly drawn to accidents and paradoxes—the moments where meaning slips, irony emerges, or certainty becomes unsettled.

While my projects often begin with research and ideas, they are equally shaped by an intuitive process that allows what emerges through making to build, shift, and develop. I attend closely to material behaviour, chance encounters, and unexpected connections, allowing the work to evolve rather than resolve. This balance between intention and intuition is central to how my ideas take form.

My thinking is informed by Dada and Surrealism, and by artists including Hans Haacke, Erwin Wurm, Phyllida Barlow, Nicole Eisenman, Hannah Höch, and Hito Steyerl, alongside theorists such as Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, and Isabelle Stengers. Central to my practice is the question of how we might engage this bewildering moment without reproducing familiar dualisms—yours/mine, in/out, right/wrong—and instead act from within contradiction, interdependence, and entanglement.

To this end, my work often turns toward the media-technology-military-industrial complex, democratic and financial institutions, and forms of citizen resistance and protest. Projects typically begin as conceptual investigations and find their material expression through experimentation. My expanded toolkit includes drawing, painting, 3D processes, digital collage, artist books, sound, poetry, and moving image.

My work has been exhibited in the UK, Canada, South America, and Europe, and is held in a number of private collections. I previously curated twenty+3, a non-commercial project space based in the front room of my terraced house in Manchester, UK. I now live and work in Vancouver, Canada on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).