Nomads

A series of work exploring emotional and physical displacement, movement, and the invisible threads that bind us to time, to place.

There’s a fleetingness to certain chapters of life, times when we hover just above the ground, not yet claimed by place or purpose.

This series gives form to that suspended state: the sensation of drifting through the world.

Moving through spaces in moments without a fixed centre, still searching for the anchors that might one day provide a home.

The notion of a home is less a structure and more a question: Where do I belong?

Working in stone

This is the first series where I have started to work in stone using traditional techniques to carve figurative pieces.

I have chosen alabaster as it tells the story of place and time from many perspectives. An ancient solid rock material which is semi-transparent when refined using particular techniques. 

I began with an alabaster interpretation of the sculpture of Ado (Lot’s Wife) by W. Hamo Thornycroft (currently in the permanent collection of the V&A London). A figure that was displaced from her home and faced punishment if she looked back. Similar stories, popular and personal, feature in other pieces in this series. This series is currently progress.