Art, graphic design, and illustration you’ll see on this site, has been inspired by social ideas, stories, and some pretty awesome project collaborations. I'm a London-based, independent artist and graphic designer and I enjoy working on projects and with organisations that connect people.
Art
Drawing in series with paint and as installation, I explore multiple ways to be radically critical of power structures and social norms as related to my artistic, queer, feminist and immigrant experience.
I combine layers of mark making, building up tensions between colour and materials, including text. Through this process, I reinterpret my experiences and relationships with events, spaces and people. Visual language brings together the intuitive action of performative drawing with learning through making.
My collaborative involvement with several community engaged artistic projects supports marginalised peoples’ activism and empowerment processes, through creative direct action.
Artist CV of recent exhibitions.
Graphic Design
From very early on, I admired vinyl/LP sleeve design, koru shapes, tukutuku panels, Archie comics, posters, and NZ landscapes (BH: Before Hobbits). Later, I studied graphic design followed by fine art while consuming band art and merch, and collecting zines like Knuckles the Malevolent Nun. At some point, I became a Londoner, designing digital and print assets for corporate tender bids, global healthcare advocacy, not-for-profit ventures, and local creative businesses. Examples of some of this work can be viewed on this site.
Illustration
Illustration is the overlapping discipline between my artistic and graphic design practices. I like how illustrative, pictorial storytelling can give narrative strength to a graphic design project rebrand. When it comes to artworks, I really enjoy how graphical imagery and type can become subversive elements. Whether in the throes of graphic design or making artworks, hand-drawing is how I start and it remains my favourite pastime.