During April 2026, I was invited to spend time at Ensö House in the Algarve, Portugal, alongside visual artists Aloha Bons-Shaw and Louis Stopforth, and sound artist Delilah Sykes.
Our time there was shaped by the local landscape: long walks, abandoned quarries and waterfalls became sites for gathering and making. Within my practice, I am continually searching for forms that can hold a shifting visual register, moving between photography, found materials and staged scenes, gesture, play, texture and layered feeling, between smallness and largeness.
During a visit to an abandoned quarry near Ensö, Louis and Aloha came across chipped fragments of perspex, once used as building material. I was immediately drawn to their physical and visual qualities, their translucency, scratches, fractures and traces of previous use. These fragments became a kind of container for my own gathering practice, offering a surface through which found materials, photographic imagery and staged gestures could sit alongside one another. The work developed through this process of collecting and arranging, allowing the landscape and its discarded materials to become part of a wider exploration of layering, scale and the shifting relationships between image and gesture.
This work is currently in development to be exhibited in 2027 with support from Ensö House.
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Pigment Prints, Nori Rice Paste on Foraged Quarry Perspex, 210 x 297mm, x3, April 2026
Made on residency at Enso House, Portugal