I take inspiration from craft, market stalls, harvest festival, charity shops, village halls, jumble sales; places where objects and communities gather. I am interested in the textures within these known spaces that fuel collective memories. The materials discovered there are shared, passed around, and hold layers of sticky, crumbly residue.

Throughout the making, materials are repetitively observed, organised and transformed in a playful manner. Hessian, straw and wild clay are prominent materials in my practice, influencing the instinctive tactile manipulation with their smell and texture.

Crumbling, expanding artefacts grow, and are laid out to dry and ferment. They are offered outwards as a tool to engage and share. Practical workshops form new collective knowledge, explored through the ritualistic gathering around a table.

The work is performative; made and displayed on top of stages that hold the remains of an interaction between materials and between people.

My practice currently explores the jewel-like, sickly, un-edible, glossy curation of 70s food culture in contrast to the earth of which our food originates. Staged food is iced, carved, preserved, precious. By encouraging gathering around this staged food, I aim to celebrate the everyday coming together of people within democratic spaces.