Post-graduate Diploma in Women's Studies University of Plymouth, 1995

M.A.(Fine Art) University of Plymouth, 2000

As an artist photography is integral to my practice. I am attracted to fragile and insubstantial surfaces that I intentionally age, stain, despoil. My work evolves from a number of sources. I work directly with materials that I consider have a certain potency. These are frequently worn and discarded fragments or re-assembled textile pieces and are presented as photographic images. The textile pieces are then discarded. I have a particular interest in reclaimed garments. Each one, for me, has its own resonance and history. My concerns focus on impermanence, purity, fragility. Since graduating (1985) I have initiated and developed my art practice, together with workshops and residencies. My visual work has been shown at regional and national levels. Further examples of my work can be seen on the sites below.