Tethers of a whole, August 2024 at The People’s Gallery, Southend Forum Library

Sea, me and sandscapes was also exhibited in January 2025 at Artinformal gallery in Manila, Philippines 

I’m currently exploring the concept of wholeness and what it offers to my sense of self. How does it feel to be whole? What are the sensations, tension, conflict or fantasies that bring me to it, or prevent me from getting closer? And how does this shape my relationship to self and others?

The images for this exhibition are the physical imprints of the parts of me that are searching for wholeness. I use string as a metaphor for these parts that surface when I need them, but most curiously when they arrive uninvited. These parts carve out a path and they sometimes meet. They can merge and diverge; or get stuck and tangled up in knots. In some cases, they are fragmented and miss each other entirely.

It is a messy business to unravel these parts,  producing a map of the emotional residue left in their wake. This map is a reflection of my  interaction with the world where I’m tethered to people and places: the land, the sky, the sea and the sand.