From Autumn 2024 to Summer 2025 I created a three series of nearly fifty large-scale canvases developed during my time at the Royal College of Art. In these studies, I’m exploring how memory, identity, and physical resilience can be embodied through paint. Working with oil, peinture d’essence, dry media, gloss, and sgraffito, I use both traditional and experimental techniques to create surfaces that feel layered, disrupted, and tactile—acts of painting that are as much about erasure and exposure as they are about depiction.

The series titles _ Imperfect, Unboken and Monument refer to my interogation of and locating within the painting of Figuration, its meaning, and certainty over time. I’m interested in how we hold onto sacred or monumental ideas—particularly around the figure—even as they disintegrate. My chosen format , presented at the RCA 2025 show, evokes the structure of a devotional altarpiece, but instead of offering resolution, the work leans into fragmentation and ambiguity.

This body of work is rooted in lived experience, particularly my interest in physical disability, vulnerability and resilience in the face of abelism and societal body fascism . The figure appears not as a fixed form, but as something shifting—distorted by memory, time, and material process. These are not illustrations; they’re meditations on presence, loss, the weight of remembering, and the act of seeing.