My work explores the afterlife of former selves and the ways memory and experience are carried through the body. Across drawing, collage and mixed media, a recurring female figure emerges ; part self-portrait, part invention, shifting between vulnerability and defiance, glamour and grief, control and release.

These figures draw on the wild highs and lows of my youth: lost weekends, dancefloor transcendence, outrageous outfits and the strange mixture of freedom and emptiness that accompanied them. I’m interested in what remains of these earlier selves, and how memory is held physically through gesture, movement and sensation.

Drawing sits at the centre of my practice. Through fragmentation, layering and intuitive mark-making, bodies are disrupted and reconstructed, moving between abstraction and figuration. Awkwardness and accident are important, allowing figures to remain theatrical, contradictory and unresolved.

At the core of the work is an exploration of performed identity, bodily memory and a feminine energy that refuses to be contained.