I am an artist based in Essex and East London (b.1991, Essex).
I am interested in absurdity, and I am drawn to working with precarious, unstable and moving forms. I am especially interested in how absurdist humour can resist, and emotionally express the challenges of living in a late capitalist age. Through humorous and site-responsive ideas, my work explores existential themes, with projects taking a wide variety of forms across sculpture, video, performance, installation, and participatory practice. I am often drawn to the carnivalesque, with its temporary suspension of societal rules, and the playful inversion of hierarchies. I am especially inspired by slapstick performance: for its emotional expression of feelings of instability, its lowbrow humorous associations, its sense of reciprocity between body and surroundings, and for its potential to challenge power.
In an ongoing series of videos, I stage bodily interventions in the landscape with props, everyday objects and fancy dress costumes, which I perform to the camera. These works emphasise non-hierarchal interactions between the human gesture, elemental forces, architecture and the natural world. I set up scenarios where I relinquish a degree of control, collapsing the human-as-dominant, and the outcome is often surprising.
My participatory work uses humour as a point of connection, engaging diverse communities and marginalised areas, who may not ordinarily experience artistic activity. I am especially excited by projects where art is encountered in unusual and unexpected places.