Artist Statement

I make quilts, embroideries, and drawings from the materials of a domestic life: family fabrics, found cloth, hand-dyed cotton, objects from my home. The work is made here, in my home, surrounded by my children and the daily texture of a life as mother, wife, and maker. Those conditions bleed into the work constantly.

The consistent question across everything is what gets recorded and what doesn't. A floor plan records dimensions; it can't record which wall felt solid, which corner carried weight. A medical file records procedures; it doesn't record what it felt like to live in that body. I use the language of mapping and documentation to get at what those systems leave out: the experienced, the felt, the bodily.

The work is feminist. It looks directly at the female experience of the body: pregnancy, endometriosis, miscarriage, maternal touch, the societal gaze. Working in textile and quilting is inherently gendered, and the tension between art and craft in this field is a feminist question. Many pieces look at mothering: its labour, its value, the marks it leaves on a body and a life. I also work within family cultures, memories, and artifacts. I record this for my own family and ancestors.

I trained as an architect. That shows up in specific works: floor plans drawn in embroidery, bodies mapped using drafting conventions. It's there when it's relevant.