Time is a Healer is a new body of work responding to ideas around loss through war and conflict and inherited trauma. The ideas have come from my own personal experiences and witnessed through my own family (more about this in a previous blog post here ). The work will be exhibited as part of the Neither Use Nor Ornament Exhibition at Ovada, Oxford opening on March 30th Time is a Healer consists of 3 clocks and a series of 5 photographs mounted in lead frames. The first, and

Over the years I have come to realise that a common thread that runs through my work is contrast, contradiction and perhaps the more obvious one of conflict. Sometimes this might be just relevant to the initial catalyst that sparks a new work; words, a contrasting thought or opinion and sometimes it becomes a part of the work itself, in the thought processes and development, the materials used or the final outcome. Over the past year I have been experimenting with lead. The d