Working from photos has been a big part of my practise for many years, but they are normally old photos and primarily from my family archive. Recording my Mum’s home was really the first time I had used photographs as a tool to create an archive, because in hindsight, that is exactly what i did. I was aware I was making a body of work but as it was such a personal one the idea of making it public wasn’t one that I considered at the time. I began taking images with my phone in

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

I have been looking back on old blog posts today and realise I haven’t written anything on this blog for a while. Much of my focus over the past 18 months has been with my residency at Canterbury Cathedral and all my writing has been over on my a-n blog which is purely about the residency. Now that project has come to an end I am at last beginning a new body of work for an exhibition entitled Neither use Nor Ornament which will take place at Ovada, Oxford and opens at the end

I am currently in the middle of reading this book and excited by the connections it has revealed. *Death, Memory and Material Culture by Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey A book about the process of remembering and memorializing and the objects associated with this process. It has always been important to me that there is integrity in the things I make and reading material such as this helps to inform this. It is not important that this background research is evident to the v