About

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 I am an artist and practice-based researcher based in Sheffield, UK, working with human hair and historical hairwork to explore how materials can hold memory, knowledge and traces of lived experience.

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My practice centres on Georgian and Victorian hairwork, using reconstruction, material-led making and close engagement with museum and personal collections to investigate what can be understood through working directly with historical materials and techniques. I am particularly interested in the forms of embodied and tacit knowledge that can be held within objects and processes, but which are often absent from written archives.

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Through contemporary sculpture, reconstruction and research, I explore the relationships between materials, bodies, histories and making. My work considers hair not simply as a subject or medium, but as a material witness,  carrying traces of labour, care, identity, memory and social experience.

Research takes place across the studio, museum collections and my own collection of historical hairwork. Reconstruction allows me to ask practical questions of objects that cannot always be answered through documentation alone: how were they made, what skills were required, what decisions were made by the maker, and what knowledge has been lost or overlooked?

Public engagement is an important part of this practice. Through demonstrations, talks and hands-on workshops, I share historical hairwork techniques and create opportunities for others to encounter this material knowledge through making.

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My work brings together contemporary art practice, material culture, feminist approaches to archives and historical craft. I completed an MFA in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University with Distinction and am currently developing a practice-led PhD exploring how Georgian and Victorian hairwork can reveal embodied and tacit forms of knowledge beyond the written archive.

I am interested in working with museums, archives, universities and heritage organisations through research, collection engagement, public programming and interdisciplinary projects.