​I am a multidisciplinary artist exploring the point at which the secular and the spiritual collide. Through painting and ceramics, I create work that starts from an archive of items and images that I deem to be ritualistic or sacred. This personal lens allows me to question where the threshold between the secular and spiritual lies. Through large-scale painting, I depict this threshold by layering abstract elements over a figurative image; this contrast is intended to disrupt the surface of the image, forcing the viewer not to take the image at face value and to look at it through a different lens, as if peeling back a curtain to reveal a truth. In my ceramic work, this threshold can be held; a raw, textural explosion of matter. The vessel is chosen as a form that can show dualities: the inner and outer, the full or the empty. My curiosity to understand the world has resulted in an art practice where materials play a pivotal role, and I favour tactility in making the work, as if I were excavating for clues. The work is imbued with energy that aims to capture the space where this paradox lies and show the common ground we all share, no matter our belief system, in the hope of bringing our fractured society together.