The Haptic Traces series received a highly commended in the Hauser & Wirth award at Black Swan Arts 2022 and in 2021 Haptic Traces Exposed won 1st prize in the Bath Open.

Haptic Traces is an ongoing performance drawing project exploring the relationship between myself and my experience of the space I move through be that personal, in interaction with others or environment, or in some cases existential. In some works the theme is predominant whilst in others, it may be an unconscious sub-theme, explored more through the language of drawn or sculptural form in space/time. Understanding, through recent & late diagnosis, that I am dyspraxic has changed the lens through which I perceive this aspect of my work and increased the importance I see of my own innate ability to explore social-emotional responses through empathy and existential interaction with environment and “other”, translating to self-embodiment in creative outcomes. Works explore flattening and fragmenting space & time, in a literal interpretation of the relationship between two and three dimensions and how mapping depicts the one through the other. The distortion through reanimation of still image references Frederick Jameson’s reaction to postmodernism, “with its saturation of social space by a visual consumer culture, (that) has replaced the modernist angst of the traditional subject, and with it the existential crisis of old, by a new social pathology of flattened affect and a fragmented subject”.