Artist Statement

Based on my experience of living in over 25 places, I explore the impermanence of home as a place where memories are made, and as an emotional sanctuary rather than just a physical structure. Working with a diverse range of materials—like screenprints, cyanotypes, ceramics, and found wood—I explore memory, fading spaces, home, and belonging. Using found objects and hand-printed images, my process involves contemporary approaches to traditional processes. Inspired by assemblage artists, I remake my old works into new pieces to explore beyond what I know. By layering images from my changing surroundings, I create a feeling of nostalgia and connect my story with how others think about their own spaces. Focusing on motherhood and home as both topic and creator, I open up new ways to see and be seen. Through printmaking, collage, textiles, and sculpture, I weave through my past as I explore what home means.

My current body of work examines moments of motherhood in everyday life. Using sewn fabrics, printmaking, and quilting, I am exploring the tension between the solitude of daily domestic care as a single mother and the deep, enduring love between a parent and child. Combining printmaking techniques on fabric, with sewing, stitching and quilting, I investigate themes of memory, motherhood, home and belonging. Using sewn fabrics and printmaking, including linocut and cyanotype, I construct depictions of mothers and children in lived environments, both interior homes and exterior urban spaces. At the core of this work is an attempt to portray the delicate balance of both the monotony and magic found in the ordinary, sacred moments of motherhood.