My work reinterprets traditional ornament, taking inspiration from highly decorative styles throughout history. Within this I weave personal narratives and symbolism, allowing my discoveries and reflections to inform my decorative approach.

Frame Series

A frame draws your eye to the thing it is holding, it can elevate its importance through its decorative border. A frame protects the thing that it is holding, which in turn suggests fragility, and when a frame is empty, it alludes to the idea of absence.

These pieces sit together in a shrine like assembly, reflecting ideas of collecting and treasuring, something that was extremely important to my father during his deterioration. Each frame suggests something different, such as fading, deterioration, absence, disruption, and disappearance.

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Faded Acanthus

This collection of pieces holds many different meanings.

First, the acanthus as an ornament. Ornament adds a layer beyond somethings primary function, and by doing so, elevates its importance. Including this idea within my work highlights memory as a gift, something which we are often unaware of until it fails us or someone around us.

Second, the acanthus as a perennial plant, symbolising rebirth, and durability. As well as this, the acanthus invades other plants and the surrounding areas, mirroring how Alzheimer’s affects the brain, becoming overgrown with plaques and tangles, causing memory loss and distortion.

The surface decoration explored in these pieces reflects fading and deteriorating, illustrating the gradual disappearance of memory and the passive conceptualisation of forgetting.

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Pathless Forest

“One who wanders through the pathless silva (forest) is one who has either lost their footprints that should lead him through, or never laid them down in the first place”

Carruthers, M. (2008). The Book of Memory. Cambridge University Press.

This metaphor for memory illustrates the confusion one can feel when trying to search for distant memories. This imagery of trying to grasp onto memories, before they drift away, encapsulated the ideas surrounding this collection of pieces, resulting in the title ‘Pathless Forest’.

Each component within this collection has a different surface decoration, using techniques such as etching, keum boo and rollerprinting. They explore ideas such as distortion with their wave like form, disruption and fading within the surface pattern, and breaking away and disappearing with the hand and pierced and lifted leaves.

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