Inclusive multi media artist

My work is figurative and theatrical, involving collaboration, movement and mark making. For a recent project, I invited four performers to dance with me and filmed the results. Taking the energetic imprint from these interactions, I strapped prepared etching plates to my body and marked the floor with large gestural movements. The plates showed traces of my encounters, excavating memories, remembering the feelings and sensations of the dance. In this process my body became a mark receiver, mark retriever and mark maker.

Whilst working across a range of media and processes, I have maintained focus on my principal enquiry – an exploration of how my individual interior life is made externally manifest through collaboration with others. My many years of professional involvement in the fashion industry, combined with an interest in mask, costume and the body, provide a rich visual resource that informs all my practice. A longstanding interest in identity and gender provide much of my work’s theoretical underpinning.

Image – Still from the film ‘Come and dance with me‘ featuring myself and British live artist Liz Aggiss.

This edublog features work made on the postgraduate degree in Inclusive Arts practice at the University of Brighton.