I am an artist, history practitioner and writer whose research-led practice investigates how systems of organisation construct historical knowledge and shape cultural memory. Working across archives, collections, exhibitions and public space, I examine how acts of classification, display and reconstruction produce cultural authority.
Adopting the role of curator, I work across analogue and digital methods, using deconstruction, repair and collage to reassemble fragments of original work with found objects, images and archival materials to create counter-archives that expose how historical meaning is produced through processes of selection, arrangement and omission.
My doctoral research developed a historiographic methodology that combines archival enquiry with studio practice to investigate how systems of classification produce cultural authority. Focusing initially on eighteenth-century botanical science, the research examined how Linnaean taxonomy naturalised contemporary ideas of gender, class and social order through the language of plant reproduction. This methodology now underpins projects in which historical narratives can be questioned, reconstructed and reimagined.
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