" My work, research and practice is designed to (re)imagine a past — in the present — for the future."

I am an artist who works with textile waste and the discarded. I am a designer who transforms waste, utilizes obsolete clothing and textile machinery and incorporates traditional artisanal techniques in response to the society we live in.

I remix mending and artisanal handcraft applications with obsolete and digital technologies derived from my formal training in fashion, textiles and printmaking in order to innovate materials and produce unexpected forms.

Mending has always been apart of my vocabulary and way of thinking.  It is both physically, philosophically and metaphorically embedded into every aspect of my research and practice.

From the clothing I remade as a child to the salvaging of discarded textile manufacturing waste and obsolete machinery — I perform acts of visible mending to honour and transform the history of the craft, objects, tools and materials I use.

As a trained designer in fashion and textiles my acquired knowledge and skill set enables me to improvise and collage together techniques and processes that allows me to push boundaries, make new discoveries and carve out a new language for materials and making in the 21st century.  

It is because of this, my practice in the field of textiles, fashion, craft and contemporary art is liminally positioned between that of artist, designer, craftsperson, engineer, researcher, archeologist, alchemist, ecologist, DJ, entrepreneur, educator and keeper of the earth.