Biography

I come from a family of artists; architects, loom weavers, textile experts, culinary geniuses and writers, but none were visual artists. So I took up the mantle of multidisciplinary artist, writer and poet.

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I use my SWANA heritage to explore personal and cultural oppression by confronting the challenges of communicating the self as a disabled, gnc, second-generation immigrant artist. Using this background to tell the stories of my every day experience; working with memory and toying with the feelings of love, loneliness and betrayal: exploring emotional turmoil, and the psychology of universal, raw human emotions after traumatic experiences. I tend to keep things abstract, not naming experiences, so that people can come to the work with an open mind.

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Graduating in 2020 from Solent University with first class honours, I have taken part in 16 exhibitions in the UK, exhibited globally in the “Telephone” online exhibition and shown work in Houston, Texas. I have received grants from ‘a space’ for the Lucky Dip Award, Mayflower 400 Southampton, Little Lost Robot Studios and a billboard commission from the Tate Collective. My work has been included in a number of publications, including Snazz Magazine and SADGRADS Vol.1.

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Important influences in my work include Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer and Sophie Calle.

Louise Bourgeois especially for her exploration of emotion, sexuality, and the body, throughout her career as an artist. The way she made art because she needed to make art as though it was an urgent need driving her, not to become famous but because she had to create for herself, is a feeling that I closely relate to. I do not do it for praise, I do because to me there's no other way of being.

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Jenny Holzer's "Truisms" hold a special place in my heart, as do her projections, and Sophie Calle's, "Take Care of Yourself" and "Exquisite Pain" are incredibly influential matter in my own work. 

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