In my work I use, adapt and transform domestic objects and create sculptural forms that are inspired by a variety of elements drawn from social and personal histories. I also create immersive installations that use craft elements, drawing and photography as well as traditions of assemblage and installation. I am interested in ideas surrounding memory, home, the real and the imagined, and many of my works have elements that suggest longing, escape and melancholy.

My practice is also informed by the notion of place and landscape and how these strands can be experienced through common domestic objects and materials such as wallpaper, curtains and furniture coverings. I find these mediums offer the chance to rework familiar patterns, adapting them to recall a netherworld between waking and dreaming; a world where images, shapes and memory morph in the mind of the viewer. My installation of a tree within the Tapestry Room, with the roots seeping and spilling into the room below, may at first seem out of place and alien but equally at home and familiar. The Vyne, as the name suggests, has associations with trees and vines and looking out at the surrounding landscape there are many trees surrounding the building. The history of the house spans over 500 years and the scale of the property has allowed me to incorporate a tree within the house, as though it has transplanted itself within the room and grown quite naturally without effort.

The Tapestry Room was inspiration for both the placing and making of the tree. For me it evokes imagined lands with motifs of trees, birds and people. By siting the tree within the Tapestry Room and working with bound and stitched fabrics, the tree weaves its own magical spell and I hope becomes part of a new history of the room and house, if only for a short time.

The roots that spill out of the fireplace in the room below are made using satin fabric and are imbued with the red colour of the surrounding brocatelle wall hangings. The shocking red provides a hint of what might be elsewhere in the house.