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 is often seen as a ‘craft’ rather than an artform 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 other women to see themselves 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.