Often, university life feels like a limited trial run of my looming adult life. As if I’m a child ‘playing house’, without a clue how to- and with an added side of silliness. I aim to convey this playfulness and naivety through my work.

I am drawn to small- scale dioramas for their tangible and immersive essence of fantasy. Assimilating dolls house rooms, my work invokes a child- like intrigue and sense of play throughout the viewing process. In dynamic bursts of creativity, I utilise any, and every, material I can grasp to shape my models, again lending to their unworldly nature. I seek to invite the viewer into the absurdity of student life.

My work also holds focus on the ephemerality of university life. I’m a magpie, if only cardboard were shiny. The basis of my work, cardboard boxes are the vehicle of student life. With the shifting shores of paper and cardboard, we advance though addresses and forms of self. Transforming ourselves into something new, as I do with the surplus cardboard. Each room holds a multitude of memories. As time flies, we incubate in each one, before outgrowing them and packing our lives into boxes once more.