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April 3, 2026 In

For the Seasons 2026

Falling Home
Tree bark, pine needles, wood panel, paper
12″ x 12″ x 13″ I 30.5 x 30.5 x 33 cm

Beyond the Veil
Wood panel, leaves, stones, resin
12″ x 12″ x 1″ I 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm

Winter Bones
Wood, wire, bones, berries, ceramic discs
12″ x 12″ x 7.5″ I 30.5 x 30.5 x 19 cm

Mandala Spring
Wood, ceramic discs, wasp nest, wasp, wire
12″ x 12″ x 3.5″ I 30.5 30.5 x 9 cm

Summer Palace
Wood, reclaimed screen, yarn, vellum, wire, butterfly
12″ x 12″ x 12″ I 30.5 x 30.5 x 23 cm

From the Ground
Plexi glass, leaves, petals, resin
12″ x 12″ x 1″ I 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm

Never Lost & Found
Vintage book pages, wood, yarn, tomato plant branches and roots, bird nest, stone
12″ x 12″ x 14″ I 30.5 x 30.5 x 35.6 cm

We Are Beautiful Still
Plexi glass, wood panel, skeleton leaves
12″ x 12″ x 1.25″ I 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.2 cm

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This series of sculptures set on plinths was commissioned by the Victoria Philharmonic Choir, exhibited in the New Jerusalem Chapel, Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria BC leading up to the choir’s performance of Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons.

August 3, 2024 In

Home 2024

Found nests, eggshells, dogwood branches, zinnia petals, plinths

Collected between 2021 and 2024
Sizes variable

August 3, 2024 In

Welcome Wall 2024

Pinned collection of ephemera with written text 640 x 305 cm I 252 x 120 in
330+ pinned organic ephemera
echoing the artist’s studio walls, with hand written text (see below)

In the Garden of Exquisite Unknown exhibition

Photography Toni Hafkenscheid

December 6, 2019 In

Grass Globes 2018-19

Seed idea, September, Lockridge Common

One afternoon in September, when the grass was freshly cut, and after I had played with the grass at Lockridge Common, I made thirty-three globe shapes, placing each one on a patio stone. I documented them over a six month period, watching them breakdown, becoming muddy and sloppy. Covered in snow. Soaked in rain. In the spring I gathered what was left to gleefully discover that they had made a permanent ‘clean’ mark on the stones.

Grass Globes | September 2018 – March 2019
Marlborough College Artist in Residence garden

October 5, 2019 In

Braving the Anthropocene 2019

Braving the Anthropocene: Air, Earth, Ether, Fire & Water

Reclaimed sports helmets with found natural elements : pheasant feathers, branches, dragonfly, beech seed pods, burnt wood & ashes, flies, paperclay branches, discarded bird nest section, shuttle cock feathers

Sizes variable

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Thinking of tenacity, fragility, resilience and beauty. Thinking of the human attempt to act as guardians.
Thinking of the confluence of man-made with nature.
Thinking of how these helmets, each representing an element: Air, Fire, Earth, Ether and Water, represent the entanglement with our surrounding natural worlds, the battle within ourselves and for humanity.

October 1, 2019 In

The Voyagers 2019

Taxidermy pigeon, 280+ hand-built paper clay branches, discarded fishing net
260 x 108 x 58 cm I 102 x 42.5 x 23 in

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Creating hundreds of paper clay, oxide stained branches that were then woven into the discarded fishing net extends the visual story beyond one of the pigeon from being simply in flight. To what end have these branches been collected? While they are symbolic of nature as a whole, they also represent the cycle of birds who gather materials with which to create a home.
There is a tension between the branches that are being carried away and those left trailing in a precarious position on the gallery floor. I am interested in an interactive narrative which mirrors life, the audience holding the potential for contrasting roles as the observer, caretaker and destroyer.
While the bird may signify the animal kingdom, the hand-built branches, ranging in colour from a dark charcoal grey to almost white, may represent the struggles of the natural environment on both land and sea -forest fires and coral bleaching.