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

To live in hearts of those we love is not to die Whilst researching and developing the work for Neither Use Nor Ornament exhibition I have, over the past few months, been going through letters and other documents that relate to William Joseph Jackson (Bill), my Mum’s brother and had he lived my only Uncle. Bill is one of the 5 people who my latest work ‘Time is a Healer’ is a response to. The impact of his death in 1944 still resonates through my family and also, I recently d

The work I am making for the Neither Use Nor Ornament exhibition bears only a passing resemblance to the work I originally proposed for the project way back in 2017. No surprise though as that is what generally happens when I begin to work on something new. Initial ideas become the research and new ideas develop from these. It is what makes writing proposals difficult as the process of making invariably leads to ideas that wouldn’t have occurred otherwise. My usual approach t