About

"I am an artist, finger painter and female concerned with the surface and the perceived. My painting process is intuitive. It relies on what my fingers remember and what the paint and surface reveal. I am fascinated by the idea of muscle memory: procedural memories the body stores as a subconscious response. I often wonder if the body holds generational muscle memory and what power or strain this extends to children of migration, those inheritors connected to the sea by diasporic voyages often imposed by colonisers with ships or in pursuit of false promises.

During the lockdown, confined …