Lives and works in the U.K.

My practice explores the relationship between the space of painting and writing by re-evaluating disciplinary codes, conventions, and discourses underpinning spatial and temporal readings in painting and poetry. More broadly, I am interested in how image and text are read and how meaning emerges from the complex relationship between word, image, and sound. Alongside my painting practice I use experimental writing to explore the potential of language, working across genres – moving between creative, critical and philosophical modes of expression.

My doctoral research, Beyond the Space of Painting and Poetry: Mallarmé and the Embodied Gesture, conceived as a series of spoken and written dialogues with the French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, re-imagines the space of painting through the space of poetry – through a network of reciprocal relations manifest in Mallarmé’s spatialised poetics. I use performative strategies to engage with Mallarmé’s poem, Un coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard (A throw of the Dice will never abolish Chance), drawing attention to the metaphoric possibilities of the space of the page and of the book. These include acts of walking, reading, writing, drawing and painting, leading to the production of artist books, painting installation and multiple-video installations.

Doctoral Thesis: Beyond the Space of Painting and Poetry: Mallarmé and the Embodied Gesture.