Welcome

2023

This piece explores how people connect through food and functional art. Using wheel thrown pottery I made, I invited friends to come and share a meal, reminding everyone the important role that people play in activating ceramics and how special ceramics our as a functioning piece of art we get to touch and hold. The ‘detritus’ that was left after the meal is the final iteration of this artwork. This work is the first iteration of a project I hope to continue where I host long-table meals in gallery spaces, inviting community to be formed and to remember the importance of sharing a meal as a way to learn about culture and traditions.

Play House

2024

Play House was a collaborative exhibition with Maya Babeanu, Ann Siddall, Bella Blanca, and myself. The show looked at domestic labour. I performed a public loom weaving over 10 days to show the time it takes to create.

Tea Party

2023

It is hard to grow up. Sometimes our memories leave us, sometimes we go through such big shifts that we can forget who we are, or who we used to be. It is important to remember that the childlike wonder you once had is not gone. The bliss, the joy, the playfulness, none of it is gone. Although we cannot go back, it is sometimes nice to look in the mirror and remember all the different lives you have lived. This piece uses pottery from my child hood, my grandmothers children’s book, and my childhood stuffed animals on one side of the frame. On the other side are fairytale inspired ceramics I have recently made, and a textbook about pricing art. The work looks as how we can sustainable use our past and our pain to create art with out exploiting out own personal lives for a consumerist society.

Footprint

2021

These put fired porcelain vessels use natural materials such as banana peels, seaweed, corn husks, cobalt carbonate, copper carbonate, salt, and copper wire to create the shades of yellow, peach, red, brown, and greys. Atmospheric firings are so beautiful in their ability to trap a slit second a combustion in the porous clay.

Rest

2024

This works is very current for me. I often feel like the only time I get to rest or relax is when I create art, but making art isn’t restful and it isn’t always good to have it become your escape from reality. All of these pieces focus on labour and the practical time I spent creating them. The hours of my life where I count’t do anything but make.

The ceramic pieces in this collection play with the idea of pottery as art in a light of function not functioning. If I cannot sit on this chair, is it art? If I could sit on this chair is it not art?

Vase of Flowers

2022

This collection of six linocut prints explores the evolution of flowers growing as one you can mirror with additions of stamp marks.

House

2022

Copper etching with watercolour.

Untitled

2022

Black and white linocut print

Sitting

2022

Acrylic on canvas

Redaction

2022

This 38 page work took three privacy polices from Instagram, Apple, and Google. I hand drew every single vertical line from all the letters and numbers on every page. The work looks at language as a tool of communication but also one which can be exploited to create documents which are meant to hide information and instead use language as a way to create a barrier for people. I argue that to the average consumer, my documents give you the same intended information as the originals.

Storybook

2023

This ceramic storybook uses pictorial elements to represent different points of my artistic journey. The tree and swing set are a smaller version of the focus for the first big painting I ever did at ECU, the building are for the watercolours I do of architecture, the apple tree for my favourite children’s book which has inspired a lot of my love for storytelling. The book itself is modelled after my grandmothers children’s book which has been passed down to me.

My Journal

2022

This 8 page ceramic journal was the culmination of a research paper I was writing about the positive effects of journaling. Our brains are not always able to differentiate between negative and positive, for example, if I tell myself to not think of something, I cannot always listen. But we are able to listen when others tell us, or when we write since we are adding a new element to the task which makes us present. I used ceramic for this piece because I felt it turned a piece of paper, something which is easily destroyed into something indestructible. Although the words on the page are not important, the act of writing them was.