Photograph by Bansi Patel

My work is grounded in the practice of living, encompassing daily acts of interruption, refusal and resistance on one hand, and love, care and reciprocity on the other. I lead on socially engaged projects that are guided by people’s experiences of place, and my practice often unfolds collaboratively, exploring how people come together and imagine alternative ways of being in relation to one another.

I make artworks that take the form of conversation, participatory performance, publication, installation and writing. As I have grown into my practice, I have been challenging what I think artwork has to look and feel like, and have recently been working with sound and smell. I use the gallery as a space for active research, offering ideas that can be translated into actions and experienced within daily life and public space.

As a working-class artist, I also work part time alongside my practice. Recently, I have been questioning what it means for my artistic work to coexist with a routine service job(s). While these dual roles can be exhausting, they also connect me more closely to the communities that I work with in my projects and to the realities my work speaks from. To better understand this relationship, I have moved my CV onto a spreadsheet, mapping how my part-time roles sit alongside exhibitions, workshops and commissions. This has helped me recognise that those jobs provide a sense of safety and continuity and are as integral to my practice as any public artwork or show.

Through this reflection, I have become increasingly interested in how money circulates in the arts, how institutions and artists invest in fair pay, and how socially engaged projects distribute their budgets to meaningfully benefit participants. Between 2023 and 2025, my practice has been supported by substantial funding from the Burberry Foundation and UCL’s Trellis Programme, bringing to my attention that managing money is as much a creative act as it is administrative. My work continues to explore these economies of care, labour and value, asking what it means to sustain an artistic practice within systems that are often unsustainable.