“ These sculptures and drawings attempt to locate themselves within the liminal borderland symbolised by the Arboralis Mundi, or Tree of Life. They are dual natured; subsumed into vegetation, but also growing through it, their forms collapsing, exposing the skeletal frames of armatures, yet expanding outwards as the forms of plant and human dissolve into one another. Contained within these works are considerations about Climate Grief, the physicality of body, rot, trends towards eco-burials, cultural attempts to relocate ourselves within nature, and contemporary trends towards pagan pseudo religious revivals. The dissolving figures invite mythic interpretation, but remain vegetally mute and opaque. Consciously appropriating elements of religious language, they evoke and parody a religious encounter, the sacredness of gold butting up against the profanity of the collapsing, erupting body. ”
Installation shot MA FINE ART City and Guilds of London Show 2021
