I am a motherless childless artist using ‘Body’ as material. I illuminate stories of women / lineage,  through investigating, researching and making. Raised by artist parents against a backdrop of alternative education and idealistic dreams, my interdisciplinary practice encapsulates colour theory, the French-Jewish diaspora and the Book of Changes. I mainly employ photography, performance and embroidery. 

Achievements in my career emerged out of painful navigation of roughness: things coming too early for me (endless loss and yearning) made me a pupil of grief.  I saw the abyss and made it into a shape. Through this vulnerability and rawness I crafted boundaries and learned how to make something recognisable, of service to others. It begins with my needle: pricking and perforating, recording what I do.  What we make together –  the needle,  the camera and myself – becomes a portal for others to notice something about their own bodies – and their own loss or yearning. I interact with theories in each discipline, magpie-like, creating psychological safety for my bold and exposing work, crossing genres and materials. My performance background makes me acutely aware of how the audience activates the work: I make something in material form, which goes into a space, and someone encounters it. I summon this dynamic forth, visualising art-object as actor, viewer as audience, and space between as stage.  I use my body as a tool in and on the work.

I am driven by an enduring attachment to the question of a former movement teacher who asked: “How can you move others if you can’t move yourself?”