About

I am a queer, disabled artist whose practice spans performance, costume, prosthetics, sculpture, casting, metal work, printing and curation. My work is rooted in a deep exploration of the body—particularly my own, which defies normative expectations of function and form. I live with dynamic disabilities, meaning my impairments are not fixed but constantly shifting. This instability informs much of my practice, which challenges dominant narratives around ability, productivity, and control. My work interrogates the disabled body as a site of power, complexity, and contradiction. I discuss what it means to confront the able-bodied gaze. I question the notions of consent within the dynamics of power, control and objectification between the viewer and the disabled body as a subject. I delve into how the disabled body, mobility aids and degrading slurs ,which are used to oppress the disabled community, can be reclaimed and used to reshape ableist narratives.

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I deconstruct the body—visually and conceptually—to remove it from binary frameworks of gender, beauty, and physical 'fitness'. Public performance is a key strategy I use to confront and reclaim the gaze often placed upon me as a visibly disabled wheelchair user. I am frequently perceived as ‘too young’ to be disabled, or too visibly queer to belong on stage. By making myself visible on my own terms, I reject the medicalised and infantilising lens through which disabled bodies are so often viewed. 

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I defy the normative expectations projected onto performers as an ambulatory wheelchair user. I am not anticipated to dance, to take centre stage, or to claim space—but I do. I subvert the narrative of the disabled person as passive or trapped. As Petra Kuppers writes, “the very act of being positioned/positioning themselves is working against the view of the disabled person as merely passive, ‘incarcerated by an overpowering body.’” My practice frequently evokes visceral, even uncomfortable, reactions because I discuss uncomfortable or ‘controversial’ subjects. Using prosthetics, special effects makeup, and sculpture, I play with ideas of the grotesque, disgust, and attraction. These forms—often bizarre or uncanny—challenge aesthetic norms but simultaneously create something visually compelling. I’m fascinated by alternative style, transgression, and the power of crip aesthetics to confront viewers with what they’re taught to avert their eyes from.

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Much of my work aims to evoke big and physical reactions often more unpleasant such as ‘stomach churning’ but visual it can form something beautiful. I am fascinated with the grotesque, the bizarre and weird and regularly employ themes of attraction, disgust and the concept of otherness. I play with concepts and imagery which can be uncomfortable, but you can’t take your eyes off. These often take form of sculptures and photographs of prosthetic/special effects makeup. I take a lot of inspiration from alternative fashion and views. I confront something that the voyeurs haven’t witnessed before.  I aim to challenge the bounds of my ability showing unfiltered representation of their disabled reality. When i perform i aim to challenge the able-bodied audience making voyeurs uncomfortable by questioning the dynamics of objectification, authority and consent.