Ungrievable Lives, New Chapel, Oxford University - 13 dresses handmade from lifejackets the artist gathered from the Lifejacket Graveyard, Lesvos. Each dress represents 1 of the 13 million child refugees worldwide. The installation has been touring Europe - the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg; Wigmore Hall, London; Vienna Konzerthaus; Kuhmo Festival, Finland; Sante Fé Music Festival; National Concert Hall Dublin, Concertgebouw Brugge; Berlin Konzerthaus, The Peace Project; Hay Castle, Exiles and Emigres; Zeister Muziekdagen Festival, Netherlands. Dorchester Arts, WonderFeel Festival, Amsterdam together with the string quartet it inspired composed by Charlotte Bray and played by the Castalian String Quartet
SONIASHNYK (1000 sunflowers dipped in plaster, Wells Cathedral)
The once vibrant sunflowers, a symbol of identity and peace now lie covered in plaster, their bleaching a signifier of its scorched land, its lost lives. Each stem a thousand dead and yet a glimpse of yellow beneath the cracks peeps through - a symbol of resistance, unity and hope, a nod to the resilience and bravery of the Ukrainian peoples.
Precarious, video with soundscape from the refugee camps, the sea, the people … filmed on location in the Aegean Sea between the coast of Lesvos, Greece and Turkey where more than 20,000 people have been reported dead or missing since 2014 as they attempt the treacherous boat journey to Europe, fleeing war, persecution and poverty. (Finalist Contemporary Talents Prize, Fondation François Schneider, France); AIAPI/UNESCO Italy
A cloak of mourning made of skeleton leaves and sewn together with my hair - so fragile - filling the space between life and death. Made of the earth and the body, it will in time return to the earth, to dust. The fragility of human life felt so quiet, so tragic …
GENOCIDE - ‘Never again’ has become ‘time and again’. Mass Book Burning - over 1,000 books representing culture, education, and literature burned in a single, choreographed act, capturing the fire from ignition to smouldering embers - a “moving still”
Eden, Eritrean refugee, The Jungle Calais, charcoal drawing 160cm x 135cm First Prize Winner of Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, (formerly Jerwood)