Over the course of the MLitt programme, I have been researching social worlds in their plurality of manifestations, evolving a practice that orients itself around the informal and anti-institutional ways that people build systems of care and ways of relating as a means of resistance. What does it mean to relate to other human beings, and what constitutes solidarity? Primarily interested in figurative painting and print-making, I use affect and emotion in my work as a method of social engagement, offering up a vulnerability that invites an emotional response through which to consider collective, de-privatised forms of care and love.

The work presented for degree show was produced in response to and as a way of processing personal experiences of grief and its many rippling effects on myself and my community of friends. I have hoped to produce pieces that invite empathy and a sense of relatability through their vulnerability, depicting experiences that are central to the human condition, yet are also instances of the strength of non-traditional and spontaneous networks of care and love.