I am a Glasgow-based visual artist working across mixed media paintings, drawings, and collage. My practice embraces a raw, instinctive aesthetic, drawing influence from the naïve and abstract expressionism. Rooted in personal experience, while some of my work reflects on growing up after the charged political landscape within Northern Ireland, I am also continuously moving closer towards investigating my current environment and how the past interacts with the present. I reconstruct these memories as absurd, whimsical scenes—part diary, part dreamscape—infused with dark humour and an anthropological lens.

A central concern in my work is the relationship between inside/outside, both in a literal sense, through domestic and social spaces, and metaphorically, as a dialogue between the interior and exterior self. My paintings and collages function as intertwined practices, each serving different aspects of my exploration. My paintings act as confessionals, drawing on memory and emotion, often taking on radical forms that I utilise as a queer artist. This approach allows space for messiness, contradiction, and refusal—both visually and conceptually.

My collages serve as investigations, using fragments of media, popular culture, and political imagery to investigate the societal structures and ideologies that shape identity and experience. Together, these practices allow me to explore the tension between the intimate and the external, creating a dialogue between internal worlds and the larger societal forces at play.

Recurring motifs like grid-like structures are present across my works—whether in collage, painting, or drawing. Sometimes subtle, this form helps unify my practice, grounding it in the same visual world while allowing for different levels of that world to emerge. The grid serves as both a structural framework and a symbolic tool, reflecting the ways in which my experiences and the systems I engage with are layered and interconnected.

Memory, magical realism, and the abject run through much of my work, shaping surreal environments and distorted figures as tools for psychological storytelling. These overlapping elements allow me to explore how personal histories intersect with cultural mythologies, and how both shape the spaces we move through—inside and out.