Holding Space
Selected works supporting my DYCP application.
Looking back at work spanning more than a decade of practice, I can see a consistent approach running throughout: creating structured methods with an element of uncertainty, responding and observing what emerges through the process itself. Across drawing, photography, moving image, printmaking, installation and collaboration, this enquiry has remained constant while the forms it takes continue to evolve.
40 Weeks (2023-2024)
A drawing practice developed during pregnancy revealed a new visual language. Beginning as a series of soft pastel drawings within art therapy and later developing independently through experimentation with oil pastels, repetitive mark-making again became a structure through which physical, emotional and psychological transformation could be observed and processed.
Collaborative Drawing Experiments (2025-2026)
Drawings created through a shared mark-making process. Allowing unpredictable interactions to emerge, these experiments explore authorship, care, connection and collective creativity. These works represent an ongoing exploration of how the methodologies within my practice might operate in collaborative and participatory experiences across different ages and contexts.
Surrender (2016)
A series of ink drawings inspired by the Taoist principle of wu wei; effortless action. Ink was dropped onto paper and drawn out using sharpened twigs. Through intuitive response rather than control, organic forms emerged. The work was made during a significant period of personal transition. I developed a simple daily ritual as a way to self-regulate and create space, exploring surrender, intuition and the creative potential of uncertainty. A video documenting the process was presented within an installation that invited visitors into the environment in which the work was created.
Soft (2016)
Developed during a residency at Margate Arts Club, Soft was an immersive multi-screen installation combining underwater moving image and ambient sound. Four videos of varying durations looped alongside three independently looping soundscapes by Duval Timothy, Klein and Jacob Samuels, meaning the relationship between sound and image was never quite the same twice. The installation encouraged viewers to slow down and spend time with the work, creating a meditative atmosphere.
Broken Camera Series: 001 Over Exposed (2016)
Photographs made using damaged analogue cameras in an intuitive and unpredictable image-making process. The work embraces fault and letting go of control as a new way of seeing.
The first experiments were made on the southern coast of Spain. A damaged light meter produced vivid overexposed images in shades of pink, orange and red, with abstract forms of the landscape emerging through block colour.
Broken Camera Series: 002 Boughs of Hackney (2016)
Applying the Broken Camera approach to the landscape of Hackney Downs. Returning repeatedly to the trees near my studio, familiar surroundings became a grounding practice while observing subtle shifts through an intuitive image making process.
Tangled (2016)
A moving image and poetry work created using analogue MiniDV recordings of tree branches in Hackney Downs. Filmed close-up and abstracted through movement, framing and sound, image and slowed voice create an abstract meditation.
Broken Camera Series: 003 Joshua Tree (2017)
Extending the process into the desert landscape of California. Unpredictable exposures and shifting light conditions produced atmospheric images in pastel tones.
Broken Camera Series: 004 Dream/Delusion (2018)
An exploration of movement while walking through London’s South Bank. Motion creates blurred, painterly images with an emotive quality.
Softer / Higher (2020)
A series of experimental moving image and sound works created through MiniDV recordings of natural environments with self-produced soundscapes. The work sit between documentation and meditation, inviting slower ways of seeing and listening. Developed during periods of isolation throughout Covid, exploring the relationship between inner and outer worlds.
Untitled (2021)
Drawing and etching studies exploring intuitive mark-making and repetition, developments of earlier ink drawings.
Broken Camera Series: 005 Caliu (2022)
Returning to this approach in the rural landscape of Moralet, Alicante. Double exposures merge ironwork and olive trees, while movement blurs the forms of green cacti into painterly textures.
Broken Camera Series: 006 Grief Island (2023)
Created during a period of personal transition on the coastline of Mykonos. Traces of landscape overlap through double exposure, creating ghostly images that reflect the emotional experience.
Through the proposed project; Holding Space, I hope to continue this enquiry while building the professional foundations needed to sustain an exhibiting practice.
How can we create conditions for growth without imposing control?