My work reflects my experience of the world – physical and psychological, real and imagined. I work in a range of media (sculpture, photography, text and drawing), often brought together in installation format. I live between Portugal and the UK, exhibiting/collaborating across borders.
I am interested in how we inhabit space and how multi-sensory reactions are filtered through past experience. The body holds memory and ritualises behaviour, bodies reflect lives lived. My works are expressions of a life lived: of loves and losses, of hopes and fears.
Fact abuts fiction, rational interpretation gives way to instinct – memories stir, connections are made, associations unfold and emotions flow. Imagination wanders, time expands … the present stirs and other times and places slip into the here and now.
We are still mythical
We are still
permanently
trapped somewhere
between the heroic and the
pitiful. Kate Tempest |