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Artist and community arts facilitator, I work across disciplines with found and natural materials to explore reenchantment and care as spiritual activism, upheld by intersectional ecofeminism, grief and psychosynthesis theory. Informing my practice is a desire to create accessible, inclusive spaces where art holds space for social connection, well-being, and transformation. I engage ritual, play, and tenderness to inspire re-enchantment as a force for transformation. With a focus on intentional materiality and meaning embedded in process, my work asks: How can we mindfully deepen our compassion and connection to the land and to each other during our time in this physical realm?
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My practice naturally dances across forms, mainly anchored in ceramics and textiles, I also work in film, participation and performance, while photography, drawing and poetry flow in my sketchbook alongside all my work. I am interested in the magic in the everyday, and how reconnecting with this can be a means of resistance to oppressive structures. Exploring contemporary echoes of ancient ritual and art, and intuitive, playful making informed by findings in rural and urban landscapes, I explore how small acts of tenderness can begin to repair an alienation from nature. I work with organic, found and foraged materials, for sustainability and for the meaning and memory held in the materials, holding space for the significance of ritual and honouring organic forms. The intimacy between the hands and the earthly materials, and rituals of foraging forest floors and cooking up natural dyes in my home imbues a delicate energy and meaning to the process. Viola Vessels is a capsule devoted to my ceramics work and event facilitation, crafting space for connection with community and earth through workshops, retreats and gatherings.
Through embracing whimsy and play, my work aims to create an accessible and tangible invitation to see alternative ways of being, holding re-enchantment as activism.
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connecting with the earth
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the self
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the cosmos
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and each other
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(all as one)
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2024
- room in the bag of stars, The Avenue, Bournemouth, UK (25-30 Apr)
Group
2025
- Spring Equinox Gathering, wedontknowwhatthisis, Hackney Marshes, London, UK (20 Mar)
- Open Studios, hARTslane, New Cross Gate, London, UK (29 May)
- Praxis, Cardiff Umbrella, Cardiff, UK, (31 Jan-7 Feb)
2024
- Portfolio X Windmill Community Gardens, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (26 May-4 Sept) - Degree Show, Arts University Bournemouth, Bournemouth, UK (27 Jun-5 Jul)
- Inno Al Video, Boscombe Arts Depot, Bournemouth, UK (7 Jun)
- Mumasha, a Hunger, an Endless Flow, SuperOtium, Naples, Italy (13 Mar-13 Apr)
- Fibrous Emblematics, TheBug, Poole, UK (12-18 March)
- Showroom LIVE, Avenue Studios, Bournemouth, UK (22 Feb + 7 Mar)
2023
- Showroom LIVE: Cultivate, Avenue Studios, Bournemouth, UK (26 Oct + 23 Nov)
- The Great Sublime, Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket, UK (22 Sept-12 Oct)
- TheBug Residency Show 2023, TheBug, Poole, UK (25 Sept- 6 Oct)
- Siren Song, Camden Fringe at Little Angel Theatre, London, UK (24-26 Aug)
2022
- Ancient and Unknown, St Nicholas Church, Brockenhurst, UK (7-10 Dec)
- The Open, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (21 Oct 2021- 20 Feb 2022)
2021
- Common Ground, Slades Park, Bournemouth, UK (8-11 Dec)
Publications
- Haus A Rest, Textile Art [online] 2025
- Visualcontainer Vegapunk Videoart Residency Blog, VVV Residency [online] 2024
- Ivanissevich, E. and Hanif, N., Talking Trees, for SPARC. 2021
- Peppl, J. Venice Fellowships Programme Yearbook 2022, for British Council. 2023
Awards and Residencies
- Vegapunk and Visualcontainer VVV-R Video Art Residency with TV (Naples, Italy) 2024
- TheBUG Summer Residency (Bournemouth, UK) 2023
- British Council Fellowship at the Venice Biennale Milk of Dreams (Venice, Italy) 2022
Education Projects
- Independent Workshop Facilitator (various), UK, oct 2024-present
- Art Teacher, Crafting Joy, London, jul 2025-present
- Outreach and Engagement Researcher, ArtsHead, London, sept 2024-jan 2025
- Workshop Assistant for Seaweed Explorations, BSide Festival, aug-sept 2024
- Facilitator of Art Reading and Discussion group, Bournemouth, oct 2023-present
- Technician Demonstrator and Course Assistant for Portfolio Preparation (Fine Art) Short Course at Arts University Bournemouth, jul-aug 2023
- Study exchange at Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea, feb-jun 2023
- Art Assistant at ART-K. mar-jun 2022
- Contributor to Talking Trees, 2021
Education
- Fine Art BA (Hons), first class, Arts University Bournemouth, 2024
- Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Specialising in Fashion and Textiles, 2018