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My art practice is truly diverse . I work intuitively and I’m content to have several areas of work progressing simultaneously.

What started as a survival strategy , tucking different parts of myself away in different media for safe keeping, is now ‘my practice’. But those that follow me ( thank you!) there are links. Studying IFS (internal family systems ) and Jungian shadow work, informs how I frame my work and how I recognise and ‘make friends’ with different parts of myself.

I have made a series of dolls part ceramic, part textile. The identity of the piece is given by the ceramic head which informs the rest of the figure. I work slowly on these pieces. They seem to require extra battery in my psyche to create .

I have always admired museum displays that show the ‘bits missing’ vacant areas of figures and vessels  as they seem to have a pregnant weight. Seeing a terracotta figure recently made me relate again to the ‘empty ‘areas in my sculpture and the parts of myself I try to locate and reassemble. I think the gaps give the work tension and reinforces my sense that ‘the spaces in between’ in all art, give it its power.

Also I made a collection of ceramic figures , all ODD I called them ‘Les Saltimbanques’ ( exhibited at Turner Contemporary , after the Picasso painting of a family of outsiders. This work is a further iteration of this. Same theme, same family, different guises.

These individuals are bigger and more developed I think … ongoing