My work is influenced equally by fascination with archaeology, craft history, and the natural world. While completing my BFA I prioritised working with traditional textile techniques including weaving, spinning and working with natural dyes and fibres. In the past I have created work evoking medieval textile techniques as a means of exploring the construction of narrative through newly made “artefacts”. As an academic I have become increasingly interested by the way in which gender is often assigned to an object or craft practice, and how contemporary assumptions about gender roles impact our interpretations of historical artefacts and the people who made them.

I believe in craft as a means of revolution; in an increasingly digital world, the ability to work with raw materials to create a finished object places power in the hands of the maker. Using my in every stage of the creative process, even making and repairing my own tools connects me to crafts traditions hundreds, even thousands of years old, while working with naturally derived materials connects me to the land I inhabit.