I am a London based print artist who makes large-scale narrative driven pieces for the public realm. My work seeks to smash taboos around complex subject matters such as loss, trauma release, mental health and gender constructs.
Until the pandemic, my practice predominantly took the form of large-scale installations in the public realm. However, while currently being ‘stuck’ in Lisbon, waiting to install a new piece of work on togetherness at Arroz Studios, I have begun handpainting pieces to go directly into people’s homes. Not only has it kept me alive financially, it has also kept me emotionally buoyant, a large part of the commissioning process being about sharing stories around the taboos of grief, loss, mental health and survival.
I have created work for a wide range of purposes, most recently with the ‘Staircase of Dreams’ for London Design Festival 2020, working with young people to develop a collective narrative on daily activism.
During lockdown one, I redesigned nurse’s scrubs for Marie Curie x NHS London, working with a palliative care nurse via Zoom to develop the uniform, celebrating International Year of the Nurse, 2020. My work was then shot for a feature about grief and mental health for Channel 4, looking at the importance of this practice in 2020.
I have recently completed a large scale mural for YouTube for World Mental Health Day 2020, alongside a large scale digital piece for Sadiq Khan’s charity Thrive, looking at resilience.
Last year, I installed a 14 metre pillar for University of the Arts London’s 120th year anniversary and a large-scale permanent piece of public art at the Southbank Centre for the charity CALM.
For World Mental Health Day 2019, I installed an 80 metre floor narrative at City Hall for the Mayor of London’s charity Thrive, addressing the connection between movement and mental health. Additionally,I screened my film Into Your Light, directed with Tara Darby, at Tate Modern and on the Manhattan Bridge, looking at dancing as a tool for survival following great personal loss.
Much of my work is driven by navigating her own story, following the loss of many individuals in her family back in 2011, my practice being largely underpinned by the will to create a platform for open dialogue around the still taboo subject of grief.
I have worked with young people in Hackney and inner- city London for over a decade, my remit being to encourage young people from all backgrounds to know themselves better through their creative practice.

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