Walking the unconventional and deeply familiar intersections between motherhood and creativity, the routine and the radical, my creative practice has become essential in lending voice to what I believe. Breathing life and language into what I doubt, what I need as a person, as a mother, as a partner, as a member of a community that often silences its voice. A holistic view of an artistic practice leaves room for all of an individual’s intersectionality to contribute, leaving behind the assumption “that only art can create new ways of seeing” (Menkedick).

My practice reclaims craft as a creative practice - still-life painting, textile work, needle, and thread - highlighting the remarkability of the materials through their intricate and careful manipulation. Drawing creative inspiration and motivation from the humanizing labour of caring for another human being, which links itself inextricably to my practice.

My body of work references my own lived experience navigating relationships, oscillating from being cared for, to being the care-giver. The use of soft, malleable materials in some works, unyielding paint in others, references the space between grief and hope as I work to make my practice and my home “a site of resistance [...] places where people can return to themselves more easily, where the conditions are such that they can heal themselves and recover their wholeness” (Hanh, as cited by hooks 49).

hooks, bell. “Homeplace: A Site of Resistance.” Yearning, 2nd ed., Routledge, 2015, pp. 41–49, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315743110-5.

Garbes, Angela. Essential Labor: Mothering As Social Change. Harper Wave, 2022.

Menkedick, Sarah. “In Defense of Motherhood As Art.” Vela, 16 May 2016. https://velamag.com/in-defense-of-motherhood-as-art/