My practice examines the pressures shaping multifaceted experiences of women and gender-diverse people in 2025. I address the contradictions, burdens, and negotiations structuring their lives. Through objects and materials, I use humour, scale, and texture to reveal overlooked realities of safety, autonomy, and visibility.

My work is grounded in lived experience. My roles as mother, daughter, sister, and wife shape my worldview and art. These identities, formed throughout my lifetime, offer entry points into questions of identity, resilience, and the navigation of expectations, knowing my experiences can be unique but often overlap those of other women.

Permission is central to my practice. The female body and strategies for protection are central to my practice. I explore how vulnerability and defiance shape how we navigate the world, focusing on the tension between being a 'lady' and choosing audacity. In my painted sirens, I celebrate power and self-possession, using abjection to address how quickly women’s behaviours are labelled excessive.

My soft sculptures make safety habits visible. Enlarging everyday protective objects in soft materials disrupts their logic; the small becomes oversized, the hard becomes tender. This inversion exposes the rituals women perform to feel safe and the forces driving them.

I recognize that intersectionality shapes our perspectives. I gather personal narratives from women about heightened bodily awareness and intentional safety. These stories become material for installations that transform private experiences into collective testimony, highlighting the vigilance women maintain and society now accepts as "normal."

Through sculpture, painting, and participatory installation, my work is tactile and layered. Colour, pattern, and texture become code, expressing the physicality and pressures associated with gender. These elements let me create objects and spaces that embody emotion, memory, and lived experience.

My work affirms every woman’s and nonbinary person’s right to fully, visibly, and unapologetically occupy space. I aim to celebrate the strength, vulnerability, and complexity of all who identify with womanhood, and to spark conversation about autonomy, agency, and the power of self-definition.