I was trained in painting and began my career as painter. Now I use a range of media including installation, performance art, novel writing, site-specific interventions and film. I mostly work on large-scale or durational (ie artworks that take a lot of time, sometimes years) projects with lots of other people, including scientists, anthropologists and archaeologists as well as members of the public and specific marginalised communities. I also have a studio where I create works for traditional solo and group exhibitions.
Art, for me, is a philosophical enquiry using materials to explore ideas. My work often explores how individuals navigate the complex systems, the worlds we find ourselves in. For this reason I am very interested in evolution and ecology – the largest scale at which individuals navigate the world around us.
My art is usually very difficult to photograph. It defies the digital world. I am not on socials. For me, it is all about experience in real life.
Over the 30 years of my career so far, my work can be broadly categorised into themes, which sometimes interleave:
feminism, the legacy of colonialism, democracy – and now ecology and evolution. These interests are explored in my art and also in my academic writing.
