I am a neurodivergent and visually impaired painter and visual artist. My work is largely abstract and conceptual and ranges across painting and drawing, inking and ink-making, photography, assemblage, zines and artists’ books.

I have worked as lead artist on several participatory art projects with groups of adults and children. They are place-based projects, exploring the encounters of everyday life and how they inform our sense of self. I have supported community artists to explore concepts of belonging, and powerful somatic memories of childhood and relationships with the built and natural environments.

My latest concern has been with exploring how different minds process information and sensorial input, and thereby perceive realities across and within frameworks of social and political control, marginalisation and power. I’m drawn to investigate the powerful and haunting human desire for authentic connection with each other, and the differences between being seen and being perceived, as well as as possibilities for inter-connectedness with the more-than-human world across cultures and identities. 

As someone who loves literature and poetry (I have a degree in literature, rather than art), I often include text in my visual art, from indecipherable ‘hidden’ text to lines of poetry by admired writers – to my own words.

I am based in Inverkeithing, Fife.

UNFOLDED ZINE, with lines from PLEASE PLEASE GROW by Hannah Emerson