Lives and works in the U.K.

My practice explores the relationship between the space of painting and writing by re-evaluating the disciplinary codes, conventions,and discourses that underpin spatial, and temporal, readings of both painting and poetry.

More broadly, I am interested in how image and text are read and how meaning emerges from the complex relations between word, image and sound. Alongside my painting practice, my recent, experimental writing moves across genres – oscillating between creative, critical and philosophical modes of expression.

My doctoral research, Beyond the Space of Painting and Poetry: Mallarmé and the Embodied Gesture was conceived as a series of spoken and written dialogues with the French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, re-imagining 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.