I am a Contemporary textile artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. By adopting the very practices (sewing and quilting) that have evolved over centuries to define the socially constructed ideas of class and gender, I hope to dismantle the narrative surrounding them. In doing so, I explore femininity, identity and inequality alongside the assumptions or preconceptions which surround these concepts.

My work centres around ideas related to communication and the many facets through which I can connect and speak with my viewer; be that subtly or overtly, large or small scale, through the written word, the physical process of making or the particular use of various textures and colours in fabric and threads.

My practice involves a process of concealment and exposure, of making and unmaking, until an equilibrium is reached, which may be transient or permanent.

I make paintings using fabric as my paint and threads as my drawing implement. Fabric is special to me in its tactility, its malleability, its movement. But it also holds a history of past experiences whilst simultaneously evolving into something new. I am intrigued by the long-standing societal distinctions made between art and craft and continually question and challenge them by using textiles and threads in abstracted, oblique and contemporary ways.

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