Artist’s Books and Folded Book Forms

4 walks, 6 weeks of my life – in response to a collaboration over several months with Emma Whigham, which took the form of a synchronous walking practice and mutual support. We exhibited a joint work at Together/Apart, an exhibition by the members of Neuk Collective in April/May 2026 at Project Ability, 103 Trongat, Glasgow.

Three Janet Frame Zines

‘There were now rows of houses and acres of concrete, while the once wet wooded roadsides were treeless.’

‘I felt I was seeing a new kind of greed for whatever could be touched, measured, seen and priced.’

‘…and no one was saying what or whom the land belonged to before the famous reclamation.’

Janet Frame’s The Envoy from Mirror City, 1985, the third part of the New Zealand writer’s autobiography. She had returned to New Zealand after travelling and living in Europe, including England, for several years.

The images are my own photographs of a marginal, self-wilded area, threatened with development, near where I live.

Plants and Text

When I paint and draw plants, I find a sense of communion with them as beings, I sense their energy, which emanates beyond their outlines, the colours leach into their surroundings. Getting down low and really looking at plants is an act of love, of devotion to the world and my entanglement with them.

Eye of the Storm

Exhibited in 2019, these mixed media works were a personal exploration of the experiences of a traumatic accident, a near death experience and months/years of recovery. The experience was very strange, and I discovered the word liminal (not realising it was being overused in artspeak), in its anthropological sense, which is of rituals and life changes which let old selves die so that new selves can be born. This is how it feels to go through a traumatic incident, and the weird felt-sense otherworldliness that surrounded that time will always stay with me. It was in many ways a period of revelation and extra-ordinary presence.

Sight + Loss

The trauma of sudden sight loss. These fragile artist’s books explore the experiences of encountering oblique and difficult to grasp information, the brain trying to make sense of stimuli.