Biografia
Our lives are lived through, brightened and coloured by the objects with which we surround ourselves: like relationships with people, our relationships with objects frame the world and our exchanges with it. Our interactions with these objects and their characters fascinate me and are the basis of my work as a metalsmith.
Working in base and precious metals, I use the vessel-form – typically abstract shapes that draw on the forms of containers (bowls, vases or jugs) – as a canvas on which to explore how we negotiate our emotional and physical place in the world and how we negotiate the interface between the intangible worlds of emotion, belief, thought, language and memory, with the physical and tangible world in which we play out our lives. Focussing particularly on line and form, my vessels - vases, dishes, bowls and spoons explore notions of function and emerge from the context of the domestic, the rituals that characterise it and our interactions with it.
