“My work is a celebration of the collective intelligence of the living world. After a childhood overshadowed by violence, I made a choice to explore interconnection and tenderness as a counter to dissociative trauma narratives. Whilst acknowledging the violence of ecocide on human and nonhuman communities, I have worked to create forms redolent of hope and a gratitude for life, creating a personal archeology of artefacts celebrating interspecies survival as a path towards a broken belonging. I have sought to honour the local as a foundation for homecoming and an opportunity to turn towards tender care of life’s diversity. Having worked in woodland as my studio over many years, my relationship with living cycles and systems has continually informed my work and I have found joy in deepening my relationship with wood as my primary material. From roots to leaf tips the forest whispers and forms emerge, shaping memories of ancestral cross species relationships as old as life itself, the underlying chatter even older and more deeply embedded into the foundation of matter. Whilst overwhelming global destruction threatens to overshadow life’s fleeting connective joys, creativity has the power to form new structures and attitudes. In making soil-to-soil sculptures in connection with the land, I hope to invite the viewer to exist fully in the moment with the work and the land, and within that temporary space to dream of the blooming of a more resilient regenerative culture. ”
Selected Public and Private Sculpture Commissions.
2022. ‘Field Shelter’. Foraged structure for social dreaming. Private commission Britain.
2022. ‘Tupelo Cloud’. Public Sculpture, Washington College’s Centre for Environment and Society. Maryland USA
2020. ‘Fire Seed’. Kew at Wakehurst. Public sculpture for the new North American Prairie Landscape. Commissioned by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
2020. New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey. Shortlisted for public art Commision.
2019. ‘The House of Invisible Hands’. Commission for the Surrey Unearthed Project. Commissioned by Surrey Arts Partnership and funded by the Arts Council England
2018. ‘Common Wealth’, Site responsive sculpture. Solomons Seal, Broadbridge Heath, Sussex. Commissioned and funded by Bellways Homes Ltd.
2017. ‘Celestial Beings Struck My Garden’. Site responsive sculpture. Commissioned and funded by client for private collection, Montpellier, France.
2017. ‘Tenderness of Earth’. Site responsive sculpture for newly designed garden by Hugo Bugg. Commissioned and funded by client for private collection, Maida Vale, London.
2016. ‘Xylem Vessel and Xylem Voices’. Two Sculptural benches for ‘Inspiring Views’, The Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Commissioned by the National Trust and Surrey AONB. Funded by The Mittal Foundation.
2015. ‘Ancient Pollen’. Public Sculpture for Ebbsfleet housing development. Commissioned by the The Groundwork Trust and funded by Land Securities.
2014. ‘Tree of Life’, Dunblane, Stirling. Entrance sculpture to celebrate The Dunblane Centre as the vital living hub of a healing community and to commemorate the children and their teacher who died in 1996. Commissioned and funded by the Dunblane Youth Project Trust.
2013. ‘Tupelo Cloud’. Site responsive sculpture. Commissioned and funded by client for private collection Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, USA.
2006-12. ‘Fragments from the Web’. Park House, Design concept and sculptures for new City Block on Oxford Street, London. Commissioned by Robin Partington Associates and funded by Land Securities.
2012. ‘Unfurling’. Fleet, Hampshire. Public Sculpture commission for new housing development.
2011. Stoughton Grange, Guildford, Surrey. Public sculpture and bench commissioned by Queen Elizabeth Park Care Home.
2010. 60 St Martins Lane, Covent Garden. Site responsive sculpture for former Chippendale furniture workshop. Commissioned and funded by ING Bank, London
2009. Bracknell, Berkshire. Public sculpture commissioned by Two Orchards 2008 New England Quarter, Brighton. Public sculpture commissioned by Peabody Trust for a small public space and entrance to housing.
2008. ‘Dreaming Plank’. New England Quarter, Brighton. Site responsive public sculpture for new social housing development. Commissioned and funded by Peabody Trust.
2007-8. Jeskyns Farm. Contracted as lead artist to create an overall design concept for the site and to create sculptures and an event to celebrate the opening of the new community orchard. Commissioned by the Forestry Commission and funded by Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
2007. St Hellier. Sculptures commissioned by The Groundwork Trust
2007. Amnesty International HQ. Commissions for the new HQ & Roof Garden. Funding by Amnesty International.
2007. Amnesty International Show Garden at Chelsea Flower Show. Funding by Amnesty International.
2006-7. ‘Oasis Room’,Brighton Children’s Hospital. Contracted as lead artist to design and make a multifaith space an inclusive space for reflection, meditation and prayer in the centre of the hospital. Commissioned and funded by Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals, NHS Trust.
2005. City Park, Hove. Commissions for 12 public sculptures. Mountgrange (Hove), Wimpey and the Guinness Trust. City Park, Brighton & Hove
2005. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Residency at Kew commissioned by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
2005. ‘Oak Stones’, Leith Hill Sculpture.Seating and sculpture commission for the National Trust & Surrey Hills AONB
2004. Kew at Wakehurst Place, Sussex. Four site responsive public sculptures for Wakehurst Place. Commissioned and funded by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
2001-2003. Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Commissioned by Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to create an identity for the AONB including designs for sculptures, way markers and logo. Commissioned by Surrey AONB and funded by Surrey Hills AONB and Surrey County Council.
2001-2. Gifu Museum of Fine Art, Japan. Commission for exhibition at Gifu Museum of Fine Art to celebrate the Enku award which I was honoured with in recognition of my work as a sculptor
2000. Millennium sculpture, Worthing Hospital. Commissioned by Worthing Borough Council and Worthing Museum. Worked with school groups to design a sculpture for the new Millennium wing of St Richards Hospital
2000. ‘Journeywork’ – Commissioned exhibition for Fabrica Gallery, Brighton. Funded by the national arts lottery
2000. ‘Broadwater Figure’ - public sculpture, Godalming, Surrey. Commissioned by Waverly Borough Council. Millenium Lottery funding
1999. ‘Hill Figure’ - site-specific sculpture, Kraftplatzroas Sculpture Park, Austria. Funded by Regional Arts Board
1999. ‘Crane Spirits’ - public sculpture, Cranbrook, Surrey. Funded by Arts Lottery & Arts Council England.
1999. ‘Absolute Zero’ - ice installation for dance collaboration. Commissioned by Brighton Festival. Funded by Arts Council England, 'Making Arts Matter' and Brighton Festival
1998. ‘A Common Bond’ - purchased for the Arts Council Collection by South East Arts and Friends of the Towner 1998. In Time and Space - joint exhibition commissioned by Towner Museum and Art Gallery, Eastbourne. Funded by Arts Council England and the Towner Museum and Art Gallery
1998. ‘A Flame for Dunblane’, National Dunblane Memorial, The National Forest Leicestershire. Commissioned and funded by the National Association of Primary Education.
1998. ‘Shadow at the Gate’ – Commissioned solo exhibition at the Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton. Funded by Brighton Festival.
1997. ‘MELT’ - ice installation for Earth Summit, New York, USA. Funded by Friends of the Earth International
1995. ‘Yew Stone’. Winner of English Heritage national competition for permanently sited sculpture at Kingly Vale, Chichester, Sussex.
