About this work:

I have never had a single place to call home. I was born in Winchester, spent six formative years in Athens, then came back to England (Essex) for school, Newcastle for my degree, London for the RCA and the working years that followed. In 2023 I moved again, to the Isle of Man, where my studio now sits. Belonging, for me, has never been a fixed point on a map; it's something I assemble and reassemble with each move.

'gorge' holds this. A small drawing carried by painted undertones, it is built from layers, colour surfacing beneath line, one ground pressing through another. The piece is an excavation of the sheer depth of a landscape: the kind of place that makes you feel small, dwarfed by something older and larger than yourself. That scale is also where I find myth. So much of the emotional landscape of mythology lives in exactly this feeling; of standing at the edge of something vast, carrying it with you, never quite able to hold all of it. A gorge is land cut open by movement over time, its history made visible in what it exposes, and I think of my own life the same way: a sediment of places, each one leaving a trace in the next.

This is a practice of excavation, of looking at what sits beneath the surface and between the layers. 'gorge' is a small record of that: of a home continually negotiated through memory, of feeling small inside a landscape too deep to fully know, and of the quiet persistence in making work wherever you happen to land.