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Drawing on my transdisciplinary background in dance, fine art, sustainability, and human rights I playfully examine the fabric¹ and spirit² of life at local³ and global scales. To paraphrase the artist Richard Jackson, these experiences formed my attitude [and ethics] toward art making. I create dance, installation, fine art, and situated works using collaborative and socially engaged forms. I limn a decolonial poetic through my embodied and site-situated practice. My work is on a trajectory healing forwards⁴, dancing towards new ways of knowing, doing, and being.

I create artworks across a variety of media, and experiential and affective encounters across a variety of contexts. I practice and make dance, drawing and painting, film and photography, printmaking and design, sculpture, sound, writing, and ritual. I use various fabrication techniques, craft and technology in my designs. Combinations of these mediums appear in my commissioned works in solo installations, group exhibitions, live and digital performances, writing, and public artworks.

My works emerge from deep engagements with recurring forms, motifs, and lines of enquiry refined in reflexive, accumulative, non-linear processes. My creative process is reciprocal. My sensual and conceptual forms are expressive of vast and subtle relational embodiments. I attune to my interior landscape — sensations, sensory imaginations, and psychic and spiritual states — in relation to the ambience⁵ of my surroundings. In my dancing, artworks, installations, situated works, and writing I make visible the complimentary duality that we’re simultaneously shaped by and shaping reality.

I create conditions that liberate interdependent, collective and autonomous internal and exterior worlds. I navigate experiential looping journeys from microscopic inner worlds — granular, subjective feeling states — to the architectures, infrastructures, systems, and materials of the universe in flux. From the post-industrial landscapes and ecologies of the London Docklands and the River Thames to the Caribbean archipelagos of the Lesser Antilles and beyond, I make, curate, collaborate, and perform exploring the relations between what is within oneself and beyond, stewarding life to thrive.

¹social, architectural, ecological dimensions; the minerals and elements that build bodies; water, timber; the geopolitics that build empires.

²forces that inspire and enable bodies to move; fire; smiles, tears, fears, desires, intuitive notions; physics; technology; death, ancestors, love.

³places where I live and work; overlapping kinespheres and lifetimes.

⁴Healing towards is my revisionist term for my research into sustainability – another is unity and resilience.

⁵My awareness of my immediate surroundings and growing knowledge of the materials, patterns, systems, and structures from which they project.