A residency at the University of Birmingham in 2018 changed my life as an artist as I made transformational changes to my practice seeking to find equivalents between the language of drawing and the interactions of elemental particles. A series of exhibitions resulted, “The sketchbook and the Collider” at the University and “The Particle Event” at Mac Birmingham “Collision Event” an ACE funded solo exhibition at the Library of Birmingham in 2019.In 2020 I completed another residency at Stryx Gallery testing new approaches.

Previous work, following my mother’s dementia diagnosis, explored how neuronal connections are created in the brain and developed into larger networks and how these connections can slip and fracture.

The idea of the “network” and the interrelationship of elements underpin my thinking: neuronal networks in the brain, the constant interactions and transformations of the elemental particles or the spin networks of loop quantum gravity.