Artist Bio

Originally from London, now based in West Yorkshire.

• MA in Photography- Leeds Arts University, West Yorkshire,  UK,  exploring the topic of her hidden disability through photography onto flags. (2022)
• BA (Hons) Fine Art- Newport, South Wales, UK -  film & video, performance and sculpture - developing work that employed a love of cinema and the personal connections that contextualised the struggle to belong.  (1988)

Post- 1988 degree, trained as a Mental Health Nurse, she used aspects of creative practice therapeutically in her work within a specialist unit for adolescents who were suffering from severe and complex mental health problems, in North London where she had grown up.

Although challenging and fulfilling,  she ventured to West Yorkshire, with her family, where she developed her creative outreach as a community artist, working with several charities and organisations until 2020. 

2017 - saw her Creative Butterfly Project in the United Kingdom's National Lottery Awards final for Best Arts Project, one of seven in the country. This huge achievement,  supported throughout by the charity Staying Put, and the brave women she worked with, led to further work with survivors of domestic abuse until the Covid-19 pandemic.

Outreach came to a natural end for her.

In 2018, she was herself diagnosed as autistic, after relentlessly pursuing help for her child's severe challenges as an infant, and in junior school with no-one listening. She saw herself in her child's struggles and understood.

A lifetime of feeling disconnected from societal nuances and conformity now made sense. Her social anxiety, depression, being bullied, being easily manipulated by others, had led her to being her harshest critic and was isolated internally as well as externally. Her creativity had always been the way to process these emotions. 

Her obsessive fascination with textiles,  love of photography, performance and installation naturally evolved into explorations with activist banners, the meanings behind standards (used historically in wars) and flags of identity. Hidden in plain sight for so long, an agency of change is the grounding of her work now.