About Me
I am a Manchester-based artist, curator, and Founding Director of 1838 Collective. My artistic practice explores embodied forms of knowledge and communication through intuitive and meditative drawing. My work is about trusting the intelligence of the body, connecting with intuition, and exploring somatic intelligence through mark-making. My process is phenomenological, meditative, and rooted in the body.
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This work is informed by my lived experience of overcoming complex trauma through practices of self-connection, grounding through the body, and trusting intuition to observe deeply held beliefs, repressed memories, and forms of intergenerational and societal conditioning. My works are not representational images, but residues of observing inner states, feeling through the midline of the body, and communicating what is difficult to express through the language of ink, charcoal, and pencil.
The mediums I work with exist between painting and drawing. I gravitate towards natural materials such as willow charcoal and rag paper because they ground me and connect me with nature, the body, and human experience. These materials carry a sense of deep history, allowing access to instinctual modes of communication and expression that feel innate to human experience.​
The central concern of my work is to position the body as a site of empathic knowledge, redefining what knowledge is and how we communicate with others. The work explores intersubjective experience, emotion, memory, and feeling through self-aware, embodied mark-making. My aim is not to create a beautiful image, but to learn how humans understand themselves, others, and the world intuitively and somatically beyond the confines of language, religion, and inherited belief. Through this, I hope to create space for freedom of thought, interpretation, and expression, and to foreground minoritised forms of knowledge, including intuition, empathy, and the lived experience of complex trauma.