University Works
My practice explores transformation as a feminist strategy—an embodied means of interrogating identity in a world increasingly mediated, surveilled, and disembodied. Rooted in my lived experience as a woman navigating a post-human, patriarchal landscape, I work across performance, video, and collective actions to inhabit the unstable thresholds between species, systems, and selves.
Early in my development, I initiated a daily video practice—a durational exploration of the porous boundaries between the human, the animal, and the digital. These performances were acts of quiet insurgency: I tied myself outside supermarkets like a waiting dog, reclined in the sun, became less girl than glitch, part-human, part-infrastructure, part-spectacle. Always mediated, always in flux. These interventions became ritual acts of dissolution—resisting the fixed gaze by slipping into something less stable, less knowable. Liquid.
The phrase “a woman should resist by becoming liquid” has become a kind of feminist invocation in my work. To become liquid is to refuse enclosure, to evade categorisation. Liquid leaks, escapes, reforms. It is inherently unruly, defiant in its refusal to be solidified by the systems that seek to define the feminine.
Through collectivity, I found further channels for this practice of seepage. In The Culture Show, a subversive video collective formed with three collaborators, we dismantled the architecture of televised culture—slicing together video works, advertisements, and YouTube ephemera to critique the persistent masculinisation of public and visual space. Later, during my MA at Chelsea College of Arts (supported by the Stanley Picker Bursary), I became part of another collective working in live performance. We created immersive installations from the detritus of domestic and digital life—plastic bags, televisions, shower curtains, balloons filled with custard—inhabiting these environments in ways that blurred the line between spectacle and organism.
I hold a First Class BA (Hons) in Art from Leeds Metropolitan University (2009) and an MA from Chelsea College of Arts (2013). These formative years seeded a practice grounded in embodied research, feminist resistance, and a continual negotiation between visibility and slippage, presence and transformation.