19 August to 3 September 2023
White Box Gallery
5 Hare and Billet Road
SE3 0RB

Weekends 11am to 6pm
Or by appointment

My first solo show in London opens this weekend. I am a combination of excited, anxious and weary. Is this normal? I will be showing work from my ‘Dockyard Diary’ series for the first time – a large steel plate that is transformed each month through soft ground etching, using plant life foraged on my daily walk between home and studio. Exploring the now derelict spaces around Woolwich Dockyard, the etchings document how nature finds ways to reclaim this former site of industry and empire.

Woolwich Dockyard is a stretch of post-industrial riverside that used to be at the centre of Britain’s maritime operations. Each day, I pass slips and docks, gun batteries, clockworks, guard posts and timber yards. Between concrete slabs, wrought iron fencing and historic brickwork, nature blooms. It springs forth from between nooks and crannies, cracks and crevices. Poppies, daffodils, wild lavender, dandelions, daisies, cowslip, grasses, weeds, marsh, all jostling for position and reaching for the sun. Most days, there are more pigeons than people making use of the benches and public spaces.

This series is accompanied by other works on paper reflecting on nature and nurture, reality and reverie. All of the work is underpinned by my continued research into more sustainable practices in printmaking, using lower toxicity, more inclusive methods and materials.

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The gallery itself is small and intimate so I will not be having a private view, but I will be there each weekend. Please get in touch if you would like to visit at another time, it would be lovely to see you all!

PS I had a massive wobble in June and July, so I stopped writing for a while to get my bearings back. I’m back, and you’ll be seeing and reading more on sustainable practice, and that wobble, soon.