I am based in Buckinghamshire in the south of England and graduated with an MFA (merit) in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University in 2023.

I am an artist who works in the space where art meets science. Collaboration with scientists is core to my practice as are research and experimentation with ideas and materials. I have made work on diverse subjects from miscarriage and loss, IVF, and the politics of conception to the hidden world of mycelium.

My younger sister once asked me ‘what has art got to do with science?’. I struggled to answer at the time and realise that the question should be - ‘what have artists got in common with scientists?’  Artists and scientists both have the desire to understand and make sense of their world. Artists might paint what they see or use art to process their experiences while scientists use microscopes and experiments to understand the processes of life. Whilst our end results are different, both disciplines are driven by curiosity and the desire to share what they have uncovered with others.

I use my creative process to transform scientific knowledge and put it back into the world after it has undergone a shift subtle or otherwise. Inspiration for my work can come from anywhere – the radio, books etc as well as from my own experience.  

One installation from my own experience was ‘I grandi dolori sono muti’ part of a group show, OBsessions at Modern Art Oxford in 2008. In 2005, in my final year of my Fine Art degree at Oxford Brookes I had a positive pregnancy test following IVF. As I was on the phone telling a friend the good news, I felt something ‘go’ within me.  A scan a few days later showed the gestational sac – it was empty. I had lost the baby.

I was haunted by the echo of the empty sac and began making sculptural forms from latex and wax which fit into the palm of my hand. They are voids, they have no internal support – the latex form is filled with my breath to stop it collapsing in on itself, referencing the fragility of an early pregnancy.

The work explores the inexpressible feeling of loss, a universal experience, hence the title ‘i grandi dolori sono muti’ (great griefs are mute). Bringing a subject such as miscarriage out of the shadows opens a conversation around something that people often feel shame or embarrassment about - hiding their grief in the deepest part of their heart.

More recently I have been exploring the hidden world of mycelium and fungi, inspired by ‘Entangled Life’ by mycologist Merlin Sheldrake. Mycelium is the underground part of fungi with mushrooms being the fruiting body of the organism.

Mycelium is normally hidden and microscopic, but I wanted to bring it into the light and scale it up. I created a series of large cyanotypes using stencils to show the different forms of mycelia growth.

Awarded an Arts Council Developing your Creative Practice award in 2022, I am currently experimenting creating inks and pigments from fungi and developing an art and science network.