Since 2001, on completion of my degree, my practice has been a continual investigation of balance & structure, within both the built and the natural environment. In 2014 I left a teaching position, committing to my artistic practise.

In 2017 was awarded a public sculpture commission by Leeds City Council in partnership with East Street Arts sparking an ongoing interest in sculpture.

I started a new body of work titled ‘Grace’ in September 2019 which was of great personal significance and helped to re-ground my practice, resulting in a new, autobiographical direction. As Lucian Freud once said ‘'Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.”

My work continued to develop throughout the pandemic resulting in some interesting explorations of concept, media and scale. I considered this time a valuable & meaningful period of development which allowed me creative freedom to investigate fundamental questions surrounding my practise. In 2021 I was awarded a significant grant from the Arts Council to take risks, innovate my practise & connect with broader networks & audiences. This timely opportunity has been a significant step-change in my career, enriching & invigorating my creative practice, propelling it in a new & exciting direction. In 2023 I was selected to exhibit one of ten AWARD artists in the British Ceramic Biennial.

My ceramic sculpture ultimately explores the theory that order and chaos are eternally linked.

Chaos is a place where everything is complex and unpredictable; Order is where things are so rigid that it’s repetitive and restrictive.

Navigating between the two, it is possible to find a meaningful place where you’re partly stabilized and partly curious.

The title of my new collection, Stella, BLOCK, is layered with meaning, both literal and conceptual. Each ceramic fragment stands as an individual, yet together, they form a greater whole—an assemblage of pieces that interlock, much like a city, a people, or a history fractured and reconfigured.

Inspired by the simple, innocent forms of children’s building blocks, these sculptures speak to the way we construct and deconstruct our understanding of the world. As artists, we bear witness. We absorb, question, and attempt to translate what we see and hear into something tangible—something that might help us comprehend the incomprehensible.

The grid-like division of the Gaza Strip, fragmented into blocks as if part of a sinister game of strategy, has imprinted itself onto my consciousness. It mirrors the images that flood our screens: the devastation, the displacement, the remnants of a city in ruin. These sculptures are a response to that—an attempt to make sense of what defies reason.

The word block itself carries weight. A block is a foundation, a building material. It is a unit, but also an obstacle—a barrier, a barricade, a restriction. In this work, all these meanings converge. BLOCK is about what is built and what is broken, what is separated and what, despite it all, still holds together.

Please see the portfolio section for more details about my current work.