My work is grounded in and bound up with a long term fascination with the shapeshifting potential of the photographic image, underpinned by my studies in psychology and dance. My series of collages initiate from autobiographic material as a point of departure for exploring emotional states and their visual representation.

From my dance practice I borrow ideas about the interrelationship between bodily sensation and emotion. In my collages the body appears as a repository of feelings, thoughts and desires. 

The tactile experience of working with images from various printed sources extends the act of looking to the sense of touch and its intimacy.

In a photograph, I’m drawn to small, ordinary gestures, peripheral details, printing and photographic errors. The final collages are the result of a process of subtraction, removing information from the original photographs allowing some, perhaps overlooked, elements to emerge. I think about this process as an 'uncovering’ of a collage rather than a constructing of one.

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