Biography
I have worked with and supported many artists over the years in a variety of roles: as an arts administrator, producer and funder. In 2009 I began to develop a practice of my own since when I have exhibited, created site-specific work and completed an MA in Fine Art and in 2016 won the Ashurst Emerging Sculptor Award.
My work is deeply rooted in cultural identity and place. It is not about Northern Ireland, where I was born, but is of it. I cannot express this in words better than Seamus Heaney:
“The early life-experience has been central ….but you aren’t so much trying to describe it as trying to locate it. The amount of sensory material stored up …is like a culture at the bottom of a jar…you find a way to reach it and touch it…like putting your hand into a nest and finding something beginning to hatch out in your head”.
So, there is dark, and light and I hope, poetry.
