Over the last few years, my personal creative practice has developed to encompass two contrasting strands: a fascination with hiding messages within my work and a desire to reveal my inner stories giving my work a more personal focus.  This creates an interesting tension within the work and presents a challenge to the viewer to ‘read’ the narratives contained within my pieces.
 
I like to work with second hand clothes, particularly dresses, as inspiration and starting point as they already tell a story through their past ownership and through the worn out marks that they have acquired.  My work attempts to use these dresses as a mouthpiece for the personal stories I want to tell about myself, to reveal something in plain view and subvert the everyday object.