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 enjoy working on projects and with organisations that connect people.
Art
I’m a multidisciplinary artist, from Aotearoa / New Zealand, based in the UK. Drawing and writing activities are fundamental to my artistic research and story gathering. I map and create from environmental experiences, constructing social records as primary sources of information. I work also with paint, photography, film and site specific interventions.
Through these artistic approaches, I explore strands of cultural thinking around interpretations of landscape knowledge – particularly those areas framed as nature conservation, sublime appreciation, and the right to ‘home’.
These lines of investigation have long been important to my work from geopolitical, mythical, narrative and aesthetic positions, as one who seeks to articulate her social spaces.
Artist CV of recent exhibitions.
Graphic Design
I work as a senior graphic designer and manage a creative team for a charity that is committed to ending homelessness. It is important to me that I offer my design expertise to community-focussed issues and actions that will make people’s lives better. I am inspired by socially conscious design – particularly those designers and movements who create social change. I’m interested in transformative, artistic practices that allow for experimentation, playfulness and collaboration.
Illustration
I love to draw. Drawing underpins my creative processes with art making, design and illustration. I can have a lot of fun with quickly sketched observations of situations and social commentary. I also enjoy design challenges that allow plenty of space for creative concepting, hand drawn ideation and digital mock ups, to develop a strong visual story or message.