A Life of its Own is a body of work exploring ideas of preservation across material and metaphor. Through a series of sculptural outputs, this work focuses on the life of material and object, and reimagines forms found in our everyday. 

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The significance of human relationships with our tangible, material world has always anchored my practice. A desire to strengthen these relationships is a continued undertaking. I have looked to objects to help me mourn, to make sense of things, to find a sense of order amongst the chaos. I have turned to our tangible world in an attempt to regain feelings of autonomy which had previously been stripped away from me.

 

This body of work began as a curiosity around ideas of preservation – expanding on methodologies for conserving, prolonging and adapting found and collected materials and objects. As a result, these sculptural works began taking shape as a glorification of the seemingly mundane, a shifting of the ordinary, a romanticised account of details in our everyday.

 

Whether found in the landscapes of our natural world, circulated and shared by unknown hands, or held onto through generations and bloodline, an object signposts to something other, something bigger than yourself.