Repurposed papers, PVA, cotton twine, acrylic paint, 2025.

My work explores imagined futures shaped by climate crisis, wars, displacement, and the fragility of urban life. I ask: What will remain? What will we need to survive? What will still bring us joy? Will we become nomadic?

This series of artworks are created from salvaged materials—discarded paper, house paint, cotton thread, and wind-blown petals that find their way into my studio. They emerge from the debris of the everyday, reconfigured into experimental forms that reflect both resilience and impermanence.

Each work is a meditation on survival. They are not made to endure as precious heirlooms, but to be useful, adaptable, and mobile. They reference the kind of makeshift architecture or clothing one might carry while moving through uncertain terrain.

Rather than mourn what’s been lost, I search for fragments of beauty and meaning in what remains. Through this practice, I reflect on how we might live lightly, with care, in a world that feels increasingly unstable—and how art might quietly support that existence.

Repurposed papers, PVA glue, metalic thread, christmas bush flowers, cable tie, 2025

Repurposed papers, watercolour paint, metallic thread, paint pen, paint brush bristles, Christmas bush flowers, real pearls, PVA, 50 x 48 x 5cm, 2025.

My practice engages with the afterlives of materials—specifically waste papers and discarded objects—imagined as fragments from the ruins of climate catastrophe and conflict. I treat these remnants as evidence: of what endures, what remains useful, and what humanity might reclaim in order to continue.

 Through acts of mending, patching, and reconstruction, I explore repair as both method and metaphor. These gestures become quiet rituals of care, transforming loss into continuity, fragility into resilience. In reassembling the broken into forms of beauty and function, I seek not only to recover material, but to reimagine value, survival, and joy.

Repurposed papers, mixed media, 180 x 60 x 5cm, 2024

Repurposed papers, PVA, thread, gold leaf, sequins, gold paint, 58 × 55 cm, 2025.

The Weight of Ornament interrogates the role of decorative language within post-crisis material culture. Utilizing repurposed paper, gold leaf, sequins, and thread, the work stages a decaying arabesque motif as both aesthetic residue and cultural trace.

Ornament, historically dismissed as excess, is repositioned here as a site of critical repair—laden with symbolic, emotional, and historical weight. The act of stitching becomes a gesture of care and resistance, foregrounding the labor of restoration in the face of collapse. This piece reflects on the entanglement of beauty, survival, and memory within landscapes shaped by ecological and geopolitical instability.