My practice is predominantly engaged with printmaking and hand-embroidery. Moving between these modalities - one pressing the surface, the other piercing it - I puzzle through the subjects that preoccupy me: loss, time, memory. Proceeding from these pillars of interest, many strands of enquiry unfold and find shape, resulting in bodies of work that are poetic, open-ended and that seek emotive impact above all else. My printed work frequently harnesses the found photographic image, driven by the qualities of the photographic that encompass ideas related to absence, looking and the passing of time. Each body of work is underpinned by one or more literary texts, ranging from theory to poetry, and language often features directly. Furthermore, my practice is grounded in craft and the handmade and is concerned with the historical and contemporary significance of slow-making. The work - both materially and conceptually - is laboured, emerging gradually and intuitively over long stretches of time.