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 investigate how histories are constructed, preserved and remembered. Through collage, assemblage and acts of repair, I transform found materials and archival fragments, drawing attention to the gaps, ambiguities and omissions that shape our understanding of culture, class, gender and race. My practice considers repair not simply as restoration, but as an act of care that makes visible the histories objects carry.
I recently completed my PhD entitled Phallic Metaphors and Feminist Perspectives: Unsettling the Linnaean Botanical Archive through Historiographic Technique and Studio Practice. This research examined the intersections of botanical science, gender and domestic aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain. It considered how Linnaean taxonomy described plant reproduction through anthropomorphic and sexualised metaphors, drawing it into relation with human sexual and marital structures. In doing so, it also examined how this system of categorisation reflected and reinforced the cultural and class hierarchies of the period. Within this context, practices traditionally associated with women’s domestic and aesthetic labour have often been overlooked. Through studio practice, I rework these methods to create speculative narratives that challenge established historical authority.
Across my practice, archival materials, natural history collections and domestic objects become sites of enquiry. By disrupting systems of classification and embracing the visible traces of repair, the work invites reflection on how acts of care, preservation and reconstruction can offer alternative ways of understanding the past.
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