Degree Show 2025

This work is about the constant labor of grief, against the need to care and soothe yourself, represented through the 326 cuts and 994 welds over the 10m of mild steel, held on machine made lace, weighted down by 120 hand sewn steel weights. The form explores the act of someone in grief keeping themselves safe and healthy, shown through a sculpture that is a complete health and safety nightmare, due to its large scale and rocking movement. Showing the difficulty and constant contradictions people with experiences of grief have to face. The work is large and intimidating whilst being a form to demonstrate a calm and soothing movement of rocking, taking the enormous feeling of grief and translating it into what could aid the grief rather than the focus being on the loss itself.

This work is interactive, in order to add lightness to the heavy form I invite the audience to play with it, as for me grief is about community and support. Therefore this object should be enjoyed, pushed, watched ultimately treated as place of rest and joy, in the aim of recreating a small part of the feeling of sharing my deep loss with loved ones finding humor and connection within the grief.