As much as I wouldn’t like to was born from a childhood memory of my parents covering my eyes during explicit scenes in movies. This started a period of research into the normalisation, and sexualisation of violence against women in media and pop culture where the dominant, aggressive male is romanticised, and male sexual desire is prioritised 😠😠😠
This project consists of paintings, drawings, and soft sculptures that focus on unwanted interactions that come from a place of unjust entitlement and desire. Interactions that embody starkly opposing emotions. The work is deceptively playful, and the figures are direct depictions of moments of unwelcome touch. These moments lure the viewer, using colours and textures that seduce and tempt whilst simultaneously contradicting their appearance with the narrative they create.









My practice moves between research, speculative storytelling, and material exploration. Working through drawing, moving image, sculpture, and primarily textile installations, I explore how histories of place, climate, and human intervention reverberate in the present and question dominant narratives of space and how we relate to shifting environments.
My research is both archival and field-based, collecting stories, images, and fragments that trace the layered realities of lived experience. These are combined with visual references ranging from early artworks to contemporary media, creating a vocabulary that merges cultural history with the present moment.
My work attempts to balance play and critique by taking images, abstracting, translating, and transforming them, and then using them to retell stories. I use colour, texture, and pattern as tools to translate into visual form, developing abstract languages that give shape to forces often felt but not easily seen. Alongside my studio practice, I facilitate a variety of textile based workshops in Ireland and the Netherlands as a means of exchange and community connection.