Practice Overview

My sculptures exist between comfort and unease, combining soft textiles, lace, embroidery, beads, and found materials to create dreamlike fantasy creatures inspired by Eastern European folklore and bedtime stories. Influenced by the storytelling traditions of the Brothers Grimm, I reinterpret dark narratives through delicate textures and playful, childlike forms, transforming fear into something tender, intimate, and strangely beautiful.

Using handcrafted and domestic materials associated with warmth, protection, and familiarity, my work explores the emotional relationship between childhood innocence and hidden apprehension. The layered fabrics, stitched surfaces, and ornamental details suggest care and fragility, while the distorted forms and unsettling features hint at nightmares, transformation, and the uncanny. I am interested in how objects that appear soft and comforting can also hold darker psychological meanings. These fairy tales are stories that I have been told by my mother and grandmothers before bedtime. I re-explored the origins of these magical narratives and picked up on the gruesome truth, abuse and gender inequality that is able to be seen discreetly within my work.

Suspended between fantasy and discomfort, these hybrid creatures invite you into a surreal world shaped by dreams, folklore, and personal heritage and culture. Through this contrast of beauty and unease, my practice reflects on how the inhumane stories are passed down through generations, specific to regions, and told to young people as harmless and guiltless bedtime stories. I try to shape fears, imagination, and understanding of vulnerability through the lens of innocence.