Hand cut paper
RA Summer Exhibition 2023,2021, 2019, 2918
Wells Art Contemporary 2023 and 2022
Royal Society of British Artists 2023
Space: a room, a place to breathe, a plot to decipher, a place that can shut you in but equally facilitate the freedom to let you out. Look through, from side to side, from end to end, from beginning to end, from first to last and all the way through. Light can be found.
I am an artist and educator living in West London. I have a Master's Degree from the Royal College of Art. My current work focuses on everyday objects, the details that are often overlooked, the inconspicuous, the 'everyday,' the assumed known and unnoticeable—what remains is a combination of the wondrous and the mundane. Surface pattern within interiors or found within architectural features, repetition of the scaffolding encircling structures, tiles on floors or walls, surface decoration on paper and fabrics. To form the final image, careful and repetitive hand cutting is used to remove selected areas from the structure of the paper. The art of removal, as well as the repetition of cutting, becomes a crucial procedure. The various layered hand paper cuts have evolved into a collection of pieces that make up the body of my work, intertwining and pulling together the inside and outside of architectural structures. Each series is made up of numerous layers of cut paper. The shadow acts as an additional layer and is a significant aspect of the finished piece's aesthetic.
