​I returned during lockdown to the site of my family home in a coal mining valley in Sth Wales. Since then, with very few memories of my childhood and adolescence, I have been using practice-led research, documentation and an embodied practice to explore my responses to place and my identity today as a mother without children. 

 

My work is fundamentally collaborative, attending to a merging of process, material and site. This bodily engagement with the earth has enabled me to navigate grief and maternal narratives, and  also consider the impact of industrialisation and colonisation on communities and land.  I am currently interested in the ancient rock from the ridge of the valley to consider the power of ritual and story-telling, human and non-human.