This was a project undertaken in March 2026, examining the motif of the tunnel immersively as a junction space or crossroads. This work was created over the course of a week, partially in situ, within the Stow building’s LAB gallery space.

Exhibition Statement:

At a junction, tunnels may represent pathways, choices, intersections of lives. We move through them as best we can. Networks may run in tandem – but there are no parallel worlds.

Between text, sketchbooks and large-scale image, my work currently presents a drawing-based perspective on relationships, vulnerability and closeness, capturing moments of isolation, but equally, resolution between figures caring for one another, in underground intimacy. Just larger than life, my figures have weight and bodies have presence together, trapped or choosing to live within a metaphorical space that reflects this closeness back to them.

Where working marks shine through against the scrappiness of paper, there is a vulnerability of process which underpins the vulnerability of pose (closed off and protective, but equally, oblivious to observation) and with theatre influence, and elements of set dressing, there exists the invitation for habitation of the space and proximity to the characters. Moving within the space to be surrounded both by texture and emotion, suggestions of interactions begin to form – the choice to interrupt, to comfort, to pass further in, but inevitably the only option available, to stand by and watch.