Ongoing research exploring performance-led interventions within Queer Ecology, focusing on resilience, resistance, and community in both natural and constructed landscapes. The word "dyke" in Scots refers to a dry stone wall; in English, it describes an embankment built to prevent flooding; the word has also been reclaimed in queer slang as a term of empowerment for lesbians. Dykes as dry-stone walls, historically signify wealth and ownership, showing control over land. I aim to subvert and reimagine these structures as sites of regeneration and ecological resilience, reclaiming them as habitats for species and metaphors for resilience, community, and care.
You can see some of this work exhibited in exhibition Tir Cwiar at Elysium Gallery, Swansea, 7 Feb - 22 March 2025.
You can buy the DYKE print here.
Installation for Tir Cwiar, an exhibition at Elsysium Gallery exploring queer experience run by On Your Face Collective. 7 Feb - 22 March 2025.
Refinishing, 2025. TV, film, latex, stuffing, Shetland wool. Variable sizes.
Fieldstone, 2024. Latex, stuffing, thread. Approx 100 x 60 x 60cm.
Abate, 2024. Quilt, acrylic paint, Shetland wool, rivets. 200 x 200cm.