within my works, discs of porcelain and felted wool represent slices of time and memory. this exploration leads me to examine our ability to place ourselves within a moment or memory, whenever that may be, and how this ability to recall, project and experience forms the backbone of our identity

i’m investigating this through the story of my father’s dementia

‘i do’ illustrates the commitment my parents made to one another many years ago. my mother’s loop is full of colour and life, dyed from many fruits, vegetables and spices. my father’s sombre palette is dyed solely with wine, tea, chilli and paprika – the things which give him joy apart from being with her. within both is the pink heartbeat anchoring them in this loss of self for him and loss of him for her. underneath is a deep and profound love for one another where they find moments of clarity and peace within a space that is fracturing

memory, experience, time. they are a layered and entwined narrative of the individual woven through the lives of others. looped and linking us together, impossible to separate, creating a never ending collection of contemporaneous events in the past, present, future