I am a conceptual, text-based artist working primarily with ceramics and installation, alongside painting and moving image. My practice examines how everyday language, often dismissed as jokes or “banter” operates as a form of power, shaping behaviour, belief, and lived experience. I focus on misogynistic and gendered language, particularly the ways it is normalised through institutions such as the media, policing, and everyday social exchange.

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After stepping away from a long career in the corporate world, I began to recognise how deeply language had shaped my own experiences, and those of other women around me. The words we are spoken to, casually, repeatedly, and often without consequence linger long after they are said, embedding themselves psychologically and physically. My work emerges from these accumulated encounters.  An early encounter with text-based art made me realise that language could be slowed down, held, and made visible. Rather than passing over words as we do on screens, headlines, or speech, my work asks for a longer, more uncomfortable attention. I collect real phrases, overheard, reported, institutional, or shared and recontextualise them through labour-intensive making processes that resist speed, erasure, and disposability.

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Materiality is central to my practice. Clay, weight, scale, and surface act as vessels for language, giving physical form to what is often minimised or denied. Painting and film allow language to shift register appearing as residue, repetition, or absence extending the work into image, gesture, and duration. Across media, the works carry evidence of touch, repetition, and time, mirroring how language is learned, reinforced, and passed on.  At the heart of my work is the tension between discomfort and truth. I am interested in how harmful language is normalised, excused, or softened, and how this contributes to wider systems of control, silencing, and inequality. By replaying these words in unfamiliar, embodied forms, I invite viewers to confront their own relationship to language what they repeat, tolerate, or choose to challenge.  My work aims to open space for reflection and public conversation. By holding language still and making its weight felt, I seek to challenge how we speak, how we listen, and ultimately how we behave toward one another.