I am an artist and history practitioner. My work explores processes of collection, organisation, repair, and display. Adopting the role of curator, I deconstruct and reassemble objects and texts to create counter-archives that generate new narratives and unexpected connections.
Working across analogue and digital methods, I juxtapose elements from the past and present to question how culture, class, gender, and race are categorised and understood. My practice engages with the ambiguities and gaps that shape history, knowledge, and identity.
I recently completed my PhD entitled Phallic Metaphors and Feminist Perspectives: Unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through Historiographic Technique and Studio Practice. My research investigates how gender, botanical science, and domestic aesthetics intersected in eighteenth-century Britain. Using Mary Delany's papercuts as a starting point, I examine how women’s decorative or craft practices have been dismissed as trivial, reworking them through collage and assemblage to produce speculative, potentially subversive narratives and counter archives.
These projects challenge the authority of Linnaean taxonomy which described flower structures in terms of the human body, and aligned plant reproduction with the marriage bed, and questions how this system of categorisation reflected and reinforced the elite social culture of the era.
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