Graduate Diploma Fine Art Final Showcase

Chelsea College of Arts

12/06/2025 - 20/06/2025

A Trick of the Light

Organza, free hand machine embroidery, silver metallic thread, broken glass candle holders, crystal beads, spotlights
Soundscape by Stevie Healy

Photo credits - Esmé Matthews

it is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again

B-Side Gallery - WestEnd Theatre and Arts Festival - Galway, Ireland

22/07/2025 - 30/07/2025

There is a network of caves deep below the earth where I now sit and write. I write it into being, “I, creature of echoing caverns that I am”. Glowing pools create light shows on the ceilings. Stalagmites and stalactites reach for one another across millennia. In each vast cavern lives the work I have not yet made. Each object shines and spins beneath my feet, charged with potential energy. Endless drapes of embroidered and painted tapestries create environments. Dancing sculptures dapple light and intricate shadows on the walls. Each day when I trawl the shoreline for inspiration in the pools between the rocks, I imagine a cracking open in the ribcage of the landscape. I am searching for a “plunge into the earth” to discover a place where I am eternal and where I might create myself.

This exhibition marks the first solo-exhibition and a culmination of a year of work on the Graduate Diploma of Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art.

Re-place

Safehouse 1 & 2

30/04/2025 - 02/05/2025

it is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again

2m diameter

Recycled organic cotton, acrylic paint with textile medium, acrylic mirror, steel, textile scrap, iridescent cellophane, spotlight

Inflection / Ascension

Cookhouse Gallery

28/01/2025 - 31/01/2025

I Miss the Sea and the Stars

75cm x 75cm x 75cm

copper-coated steel, textile scrap, cyanotype on recycled cotton, acrylic paint, metallic embroidery thread, steel cable, spray paint

Moving Poem

“I miss the sea and the stars”

“I try to suspend myself in time and space”

“A spark in a vibrating field of dark”

“I capture the flash of the instant. The burning shadow”

“Did I build this place from the atoms of my mind?”

“Could I create myself from fragments of earth?”

Graduate Diploma Fine Art Interim Show

Chelsea College of Arts

28/11/2024

overlapped / frayed

140cm x 160cm

gouache and acrylic paint, embroidery floss, shells and beads on recycled cotton canvas, textile