I am drawn to the vessel as a metaphor for female identity and experience. Through a consideration of form and abstraction, and working with porcelain and fabric, materials closely linked to domesticity. My ceramic pieces explore organic forms and tactile interactions, where pinched forms, imprinted with my own fingerprints, become vessels for the narrative of womanhood and women’s work, resilience and transformation. The process of construction is both intuitive and considered; every piece is forged entirely by hand, my hands, that show premature signs of ageing through psoriatic arthritis. I find there is a subconscious need to have my hands physically present in the work, and so in my works I aim to emphasise the labour of hands, the manifestation of identity, and the fragility of existence. ​