I am an artist–researcher working at the intersection of art, mental health, lived experience, and clinical research. My practice engages with common human — often hidden — experiences, including parenting, ageing, and neurological and mental illness, and explores how these can be communicated through story and visual practice in ways that invite reflection, questioning, and challenge harmful stereotypes. Playfulness and humour are often part of this approach, used to open up difficult subjects without diminishing their complexity.
My work is shaped by both lived experience and an academic background spanning science and art, including an MSc in Clinical Neuroscience (King’s College London), an MA in Art & Science (Central Saint Martins), and a BA in Physiological Sciences (University of Oxford).
Since becoming a mother while in recovery from disordered eating, my work has focused on relationships with food and feeding. I am particularly interested in how experiences of disordered eating can be communicated without relying on bodies, diagnoses, or visual markers of illness; how public health messaging, cultural norms, and the language of food marketing and consumer culture are experienced and internalised by parents with a history of disordered eating; and how everyday messages about food are absorbed, transmitted, and interpreted by children, shaping their future relationships with eating.
My current work includes the development of a pseudo-children’s book aimed at childcare and healthcare professionals. The book contrasts real phrases spoken to my daughter with redacted clinical notes from my own medical records, exposing the collision between “normal” food talk and pathological frameworks of eating, and questioning how care is communicated across generations.
My work has been exhibited and presented in clinical, academic, and public settings, including Tate Modern, Somerset House, CERN, NHS hospital galleries, universities, conferences, and community spaces.
Alongside my artistic practice, I work in co-produced NHS contexts, contributing lived experience and creative thinking to service development. I am currently collaborating with the NELFT long-standing eating disorders pathway, advising on approaches to care that address entrenched narratives around food, responsibility, and worth over time. I have also produced films and illustrated resources used in NHS staff training and patient support, and I regularly collaborate with clinicians, researchers, and experts by experience.
I am currently seeking to develop my practice through doctoral research, building on this body of work to more formally explore the complex dynamics shaping food socialisation and eating disorder recovery, and what needs to change to promote positive relationships with food.