My practice is process led and rooted in craftsmanship, patience and close attention to material. I work primarily with hand perforated metal wall pieces and detailed abstract drawings, both created through slow, repetitive methods that require sustained physical and mental focus. With a background in textiles, my work is informed by ideas of locality, tradition, material knowledge, and climate.
These influences shape both my choice of materials and my approach to making. I often describe myself as a metalworker, though my relationship to metal has developed outside formal training. Instead, I intentionally adapt tools across disciplines, most notably using a bradawl, traditionally a woodworking tool, to perforate metal. I refer to this process as bradawling.
Through repetition and resistance, the material records time, pressure and movement, allowing emotional and psychological states to become embedded within the surface. The work values slowness and touch, positioning making as an embodied and attentive act. By rethinking inherited tools and processes my practice challenges fixed definitions of craft and skill. Material sensitivity and process are central to my contemporary artistic production.