The Healing System is a constellation, a collection of possible invitations: handmade rituals, sculptural forms, organic remnants, gestural drawings, objet trouvé ...
It resists a fixed prescription, instead inviting process, play and intuition.
It’s a space where repair is intuitive, organic and layered: material, emotional, speculative.

Begun in Spring 2024, during a moment of intense life change, this work emerged as a way of listening to what breaks, what endures, and how I begin again. And again. And again.
How the wound heals, and we learn to love the scars that remain.

I found the Sisymbrium (or did it find me?) blossoming through the cracks in the pavement while I wandered the streets of Margate, UK, scouting for a new body of art work.
This weed, growing along roadsides, in street cracks and waste ground, was once revered: 
The ancient Greeks believed it to be an antidote to all poisons. In European folk medicine, it soothed sore throats and restored lost voices. Lost voice, my voice. According to some strands of botanical lore, one must enter into dialogue with the plant for it to offer its healing. So I did, I asked ... or rather, I began to draw my prayer. 
As we attracted each other, drawn together, I began to paint, draw with chalk, guache and pastels looign for he prper sign. Like a shaman. To trace the beginnings of a conversation. Because healing lives not only in the remedy, but in the act itself. 

Another key aspect of my practice is creating a dialogue between the exhibition space that hosted me and the landscape outside.

I found you crawling on my Skin. I went dancing.

Jazz and experimental guitarist Luke Purbrick invited me to join him for an open-door week of improvised live music-visual sessions at Mid-Street Lab in Brighton, UK.
Throughout the week, the gallery transformed into a living laboratory of spontaneous sonic textures and gestural visual exploration, where the boundaries between disciplines dissolve.

Synaesthesia:  "sensation in one part of the body produced by stimulus in another," 1881.
Sound meets color, and color answers back: a real-time conversation between music and image.

An ephemeral, unrehearsed experience where audiences were welcome to drop in, observe, and engage with the evolving process.