Born in 1970 and raised on a council estate in Bradford. I became the first in my family to attend university. A solo exhibition in London in 1998 marked an early high point in my practice, before family took precedence. I returned to art through an MA in Creative Practice, graduating in 2023.
My practice explores the human condition and our persistent desire to own, control and impose order on a world defined by change. I work with industrial artefacts, discarded tools, technical drawings, rust and other materials that carry the traces of human intervention. Through processes of making, forcing, marking and decay, I bring systems of precision and control into confrontation with natural cycles that cannot be subjugated.
Rust is central to this thinking. It becomes both material and metaphor: a slow, persistent process through which steel returns to the earth, quietly undoing the intentions and ownership once invested in it. Industrial objects may be designed, forged, used and discarded, but oxidation outlasts each stage of their human purpose.
My work sits in this tension between permanence and change, human intention and natural process. It asks what remains when the structures we create to control the world inevitably begin to disappear and nature continues, indifferent to human actions.
