A bit of background…
Image by Eamonn Brown at ‘Mother Tongue’, The Mac.
I am an artist, a massage therapist and a doula and I am interested in the cathartic nature of art and making spaces for deep listening, support, education and advocacy for pregnant and birthing people.
As an artist I am attempting to create performances or things that feel soft and felt, like a hug, or a half baked memory of your aunt’s house and what the smell and feeling was. I am interested in creating spaces that feel like we can spill ourselves out and let our barriers down and be seen. I love experiencing things like this, therefore I like to work in this immersive, inviting way with audiences. I work in performance, sound scores, video and images- whatever medium calls to me to say the thing that I need to say. I love collaboration and working in a socially engaged way with new people.
My work centers around the idea that softness, care and community can be a vehicle for huge shifts of transformation in the local and universal.
How can we hold each other to create a space that softness can be a radical act of resistance. To stay soft and curious about our moving bodies and allow ourselves to drip out of our containers when necessary.
Image by Eslam Abd El Salam, Oct 2023. ‘Wet Heat’
Photo by Helen Sloan, Aug 2023. ‘The night draws near’ - Array Collective closing of the Turner prize exhibition.
Thank you for reading and for being here. I’m embracing the fact that I don’t fit neatly into one category, and I’m happy to straddle them all. Moving toward love, pleasure, and connection is at the heart of everything I do. My mission is to hold space for others, whether in performance, in a therapeutic setting, or simply as a friend.