Artist Books
Lotus, 2024, Monotype on kozo paper with stitching, Closed Dimensions 11 x 11 x 1cm, Open Dimensions 29 x 29 x 1 cm
Monotypes of floating forms and flower petals on delicate kozo paper are bound together by stitched lines of topography, unfurling within lotus folds.
This book form is a meditation on the fragility and beauty of a flower petal and how closely it can resemble the patterns found on human skin. The lotus is a symbol of resilience, renewal and strength. In this very unstable and disheartening time we find ourselves in, it is hope and tenacity growing out of the mud.
Cyanometer, 2025, Artist Book, Monotype on Japanese papers and Hahnemuhle
Closed dimensions 27 (h) x 17 (w) x 1 (d), Open Dimensions 27(h) x 29(w) x 82 (d) cm
Cyanometer, an artist book, is a homage to its namesake. A tool used by early scientists to gauge the ‘blueness’ of the sky.
Beneficial Weeds; a book of overthinking
Graphite frottage, monotype and soldering iron on japanese papers with magnani, 2024
Closed Dimensions: 28.5cm (h) x 21.5cm (w) x 1cm (d), Open dimensions (variable): 32cm (h) x 41cm (w) x 25cm (d)
I've been thinking about the language of weeds. Who gets to choose what a weed is? A label sprung from colonisation, of cultivation and capitalism.
The term 'beneficial weeds' is such an irony. Dandelion, nettle, clover, cleavers. Food and medicine. Virtuous plants, resilient and tenacious. Plants that thrive.
Whilst making this book i thought of Gaza. All those Palestinian people, deemed weeds in their own land by Israel, struggling to survive while holding on to their roots.
Looking to the natural world is where hope can be found, the green at the edge of the concrete and lead.
Underland, 2024, Artist book with Hahnemuhle, spotted gum bark ink, charcoal and soldering iron
Closed dimensions 18 x 12cm, Open dimensions 18 x 25 x 5 cm
A book form with no clear ending or beginning - inside, outside, upside down. The push and pull of a fishbone spine, time is elastic.
These drawings were made en plein air and the paper left in situ to let the landscape make it’s own mark, stains appearing. The ground holds history and memory - drought, fire, floods, fallen leaves, insect traces, animal scats and bones.
The ink is made from spotted gum bark, an iron solution used to change the colour and darken areas, a ‘saddening agent’ in technical terms.
Flagging; an ode, 2022, book form, linocut on kozo, Hahnemühle and ink
Closed dimensions 20 (h) x 15.5 (w) x 15 (d) cm, Open Dimensions 28 (w) x 20 (h) x 12 (d) cm
