I’m a North West-based autistic artist, arts producer, curator and educator. My work focuses on the sensory – informed by my synaesthesia – creating a unique understanding of sound, shape, texture, colour, and mass. My practice also navigates the politics of understanding: how communication happens outside of language and the importance of finding alternative routes to create, and share, knowledge. This can take the form of more traditionally recognisable art objects, such as sculpture, drawings, and exhibitions; or exist more fluidly as workshops, performances, and frameworks for experimentation and support.
Much of my work strives to demystify the processes of art-making, and the difficulty of navigating both art spaces and the sector as a whole. In the gallery, this might include collaboration and participation. This is either through working with other artists or inviting audiences in as both performer and viewer, subverting the expectation of traditional formal art spaces. In my production practice, I create similar frameworks for artistic engagement and development, aiming to remove some of the barriers to making art, or working within the sector.
Currently, I am focusing on the processes of transmutation which, for me, exist between sound and sculpture. After a period focused more on production and artist support, I am investing in my studio practice through the support of an Arts Council England’s Develop Your Creative Practice Grant (DYCP). I am working with ceramics and sound production, to capture my synaesthetic experiences as physical gestures and fixed forms. I am also researching the connections between non-verbal communications and object-making: particularly around neurodivergent sensory techniques like stimming.