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, my art 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.

My background is mixed – mixed culturally, mixed class, mixed religions, mixed race. I learned stories about ‘my’ people and I know the histories that involve my ancestors.

Since living and working in London with people from every culture and religion, I realised that everyone knows only the stories of their people. If a person is from a minority group or a persecuted class, they will know about how their ancestors and friends have been persecuted by dominant culture. Most will know 2 types of stories – the victim and the persecutor’s stories: the dominated and the dominator. We tend to know only one part of the history of colonial encounter, racism, class persecution. We tend to ignore other minorities and their histories. We seem to have created binary worlds of one ‘us’ and one ‘them’ Now I am interested in trying to explore and understand how all us of are entangled with each other, that all the cultures coexist and have intermingles histories.

My work is about this plurality, about all the differences that coexist at the same time. I am interested in understanding coexistence, change, interrelationship and interdependence. This is why I am interested in ecology and evolution. Both are fundamentally about how we are all just being, then shit happens.*
(*probably the title of my next book.)