The artwork I create is deeply rooted within the textile medium with a focus on quilting,
weaving, and embroidery. These disciplines were taught to me by the women in my
family as a domestic craft; a history I keep alive in the objects I create. My practice tries
to underscore the softness, comfort, and tactility of the embodied nature of textiles
while juxtaposing against aggressive, violent, and morbid conceptual frameworks.

Each of the styles I undertake to create an artwork brings with it a long and storied
history. I try to ensure that my practice honours and encapsulates these disparate
qualities while adding my own. They become artefacts, each revealing and playing
with the tension between the object and its audience – the soft quilt saying something
violent to those looking at it.

I draw inspiration from the hidden domestic textile industry and the people who ran it,
the lives they lived and the experiences they felt. I try, within my work, to build a sense
of this world so as to allow the audience to not just observe, but to experience it too.
Through my work I acknowledge I am the last of a long line of crafters; it is an ancestral
practice that embraces tradition and history while building a contemporary voice.