Every work I make responds to a hard-won personal kaupapa and symbols that I have developed in response to my experiences. While stained glass, clay and illustration are often seen as a ‘crafts’ rather than fine arts it doesn’t matter to me where my work is seen to fit. It matters that it challenges oppression and injustice, it matters that it allows those who have experienced violence and abuse to see themselves represented from a strengths based, dignifying approach - as bodies of light, not broken, damaged, passive ‘victims’, it matters that people talk about violence openly.

My work is my voice, my conduit, my resistance to violence, my form of social activism, my response to the binaries inherent in the complex discourse I work within.