artist bio

clay hand-builder using repeated motifs & simplified forms. always domestically functional, with a fictional, mythical, socio-ecological narrative. 

north london born, i am a citizen of aotearoa. currently loving being in residence at salamanca arts centre, nipaluna, lutruwita, tasmania.

likeness by @shiam_ldn

i’m looking to make work that is all around open & slow, that refuses ‘cruel is cool, fast is first’: that nastiness peddled by mainstream media & political/corporate fucks; those tricks that serve to perpetuate insecurity & disconnection - personal, environmental and societal - which, in turn, props up our brutal profit-driven/capital-accumulating status quo.

here, figurative scenes tell the speculative story of a post-human ‘next world’ where existence & evolution is focused on community & play, self-loving mythology & living within the boundaries of nature. it talks, in the simplest ways, about how, even yet, humanoids could get things right.

making this work feels, to me, optimistic and reassuring. a reminder that life only ends if we assume the story is about us. i hope this optimism translates through the functionality of work that can pass forward and forward and forward.

so, welcome to a welcoming post-human earth. as homewares.

and also houses for rats, and fish, that look old. and will last until they are.

also, fuck fascism. fuck empire. fuck israel. fuck it so much.

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thanks for visiting.

love, laura

life, uh, finds a way - dr ian malcolm

never run with a chisel - my dad

i’ll hold your hair for you - anonymous