I am an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, drawing, and film. I am a nomad at heart, drawn to the ocean and bodies of water, my practice investigates mythology as a way of understanding complex emotional and environmental experiences. I am particularly interested in how myth can act as a collective language, bringing kin together in order to create new narratives that articulate the climate emergency, as described by author Donna J Haraway, in Staying with the Trouble. In comment to climate change, I have created pools of seawater within my ceramic goddess, that evaporate with time, inspired by the installation Evaporation by artist Tania Kovats.

I am developing Mitherspher, a new mythological sea goddess, influenced by Orcadian folklore. My Mitherspher installation at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art this year was framed by a film that showed a liminal world that rests above and below the ocean through fragmentary scenes, detailed by my poetry read by Harry Josephine Giles in their lilting Orcadian accent.

My Large Seawater Ink drawings show explorations of the Mitherspher mythology, made through a process that allows the pigments to move freely within the seawater, the drawings provide a dialogue within the language of water.

My work invites reflection on the ocean’s beauty and fragility, emphasising the need to protect it.