I am a collector,

I collect material, ideology, images; anything consumable.

Collage is my practice, and I wield my collection to produce alternative visual landscapes which showcase how I perceive and re-contextualize the world around me. Creating this constant back and forth of cyclical construction through printed material. I never aim to produce something completely different or new, it’s more important to me to act as a mirror or reflection of our daily lives, habits and routines.

My lived experiences of depersonalization and derealization set the tone for my work which allows me to further explore altered states of being and consciousness.

Personally, I enjoy making the viewer uncomfortable, but the aim of my work isn’t to scare or comfort. It’s just there suspended within it’s own time and space similar to how depersonalization can make you feel.

Once a piece is complete, I give up ownership, it will always be my work but as part of the cyclical construction I give the piece back to the world of imagery for the next person to explore or alter just as I have done.

I’ve worked with other mediums but I’ve always been drawn to collage, it just scratches that artistic itch for me and due to the materials I use It feels like a medical procedure.

I use a medical grade scalpel to delicately cut into images; the process is therapeutic and allows you to enter an alternate space through mindfulness.

I often with different colour, imagery and scale but I do enjoy working on a very small or large scale as to me they feel a lot more intimidating and a colour preference of oranges and blues as I feel the combination looks quite surreal.

I’m very political but while politics isn’t a main focal point in my art, my work is inherently political as I’m a working-class female from North West, England and this is a aspect that feeds into my overall practice. All these experiences producing a harmonious balance which runs alongside historical influences such a Dadaism or surrealism