Artist statement
Working with living sculpture and installation, I create spaces and moments which connect the smallest, poetic actions of plants with precarious issues facing humanity. My background as an activist and campaigner on social and environmental justice issues informs my thinking and making. My practice centres on the afterlife of the discarded and is rooted in small acts of reparation - sewing scraps together, watering fragile seedlings and nurturing the regenerative power of composting from waste materials.
Exhibitions and screenings
2025
New Contemporaries, ICA, London
DON'T LOOK Projects, Los Angeles
2024
Acts of Union, Netil House, London
Now 2024, Gerald Moore Gallery, London
Minor Attractions, The Mandrake Hotel, London
New Contemporaries, KARST, Plymouth
Stillness in Movement, Bermondsey Project Space, London
A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London
Entanglements and Denials, Tang Museum, Dongguan, China
Life Boat, APT Gallery, London
2023
The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London
All Sides of Me, The Crypt Gallery, London
The London Group at Scarborough, Old Parcels Office, Westborough
Taste the Difference, 50 Celebration Avenue, London
Bottleneck, Hart's Lane Gallery, London
2022
Now Introducing 2022, Studio West, London
Hypha Presents, 56 Conduit St, London
Present Tense, Deptford X, London
City Takeover, The Attenborough Centre, Leicester
Catch Your Breath, Morley Gallery, London
Territoil, Art Hub Gallery, Deptford, London
Futures_after, the old Peacocks store, Catford, London
The London Group Winter Exhibition, online: http://onlinegallery.thelondongroup.com/
2021
ONHOLD, Goldsmiths MFA Studios, Deptford, London
The London Group Xmas Exhibition, The Cello Factory, London
The State of Things, Küefer-Martis-Huus, Liechtenstein
In Plain Sight, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
In The Dark, BEING THERE, Crypt of St John's Waterloo, London
Virtual II, gowithYamo Group Exhibition, online: https://www.gowithyamo.com/blog/gowithyamo-virtual-ii
Something from Nothing, Kato Wong Gallery, online: https://www.katowonggallery.com/gallery
Weaving In The Dark, online: https://onlinegallery.thelondongroup.com/weaving-in-the-dark
2020
You Are Here, curated by @katmapped, online: https://katmapped.org/2020-show%3A-you-are-here
The London Group Annual, online: http://annual.thelondongroup.com
Wish You/We Were Here/There, online:
Housebound, Chapel Arts Studios, online: http://www.chapelartsstudios.co.uk/housebound/ and instagram @houseboundart
gowithYamo Group Exhibition, 253 Hoxton Art Project Space, London, and online: https://www.gowithyamo.com/blog/the-gowithyamo-group-exhibition/
ISOLATION, online: http://www.thelondongroup.com/isolation/ and instagram @thelondongroup
Signature Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Bankside Hotel, London
2019
London Group Open, The Cello Factory, London
2018
SHOWCASE, OXO Gallery, London
Soundstripes II, Northern Quarter, Huddersfield
Becoming Image: Medicine and the Algorithmic Gaze, UCL, London
Awards and Residencies
2025
Winner of the Gilbert Bayes Award
Awarded the Sarabande Foundation studio residency
2024
Awarded the Gilbert Bayes Trust Scholarship
2023
Selector for The London Group Open
2022
Shortlisted for New Contemporaries
Selected for New Contemporaries
Awarded Hypha Studios residency in the old Peacocks, Catford as part of Futures_after collective (funded by the Arts Council and selected by Margot Hellor, Director of South London Gallery)
2021
Shortlisted for Sustainability First Art Award
Shortlisted for New Contemporaries (selected by Tai Shani (Turner Prize 2019), Michelle Williams Gamaker (Jarman Award 2020) and sculptor Hew Locke)
Selected artist for UKNA City Takeover 2021/22
2020
Shortlisted for The Mother Art Prize (selectors included Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern and Eva Langret, Artistic Director of Frieze London)
Elected as a member of The London Group
Shortlisted for The New Emergence Art Prize
Goldsmiths Academic Excellence Award
2019
Finalist for The Signature Art Prize 2019/20
Texts
2018
Capsula: A journey into the stomach of the machine, in Becoming Image: Medicine and the Algorithmic Gaze, Liz Orton (editor)