Artist Statement

I walk through different cultures, spaces and places - investigating a particular strand of human experience. I film and record direct or near encounters. I am calling for participation and contact, and in so doing I can attract the opposite - resistance, distance, fear. Whatever the shape I bring all threads together to create one event, that hinges on an invitation for genuine connection – here and now. My work forms a critical and sensual reflection - I encourage the ground of our identity down to our feet and through the intelligence of our senses.

I work with video, sound, installation, sculpture, performance and participation. I use body as intervention, encounter, ritual, and a site for social exchange. It is my tool to critique societal and political realms and my means to investigate relationship, ‘otherness’, the inter-subjective field, public and private space. I take an animistic-feminist position, my work stands upon a bedrock of feminist theory. My current body of work explores the dialogue and tension between what I have come to describe as the ‘indigenous body’ and the ‘colonised body’. By continuously pointing to a fluid and spontaneous subjectivity that is in conversation, alive and present, the ‘indigenous body’ has agency, and by this unshackles the ‘colonised body’ from the patriarchal narrative in which it is bound.

To touch is to change, possibly transform.

I cast my voice and weave in my body:

A knowing lodged in my blood and bones.

A ruthless thirst to express the fullness

Or the empty.

Dig below the imposed order of things,

To undermine,

To shatter language.

I cross the gap.