Artist Statement
My practice explores identity, belonging and the experience of home through the familiar and the everyday. I am interested in how ordinary objects, domestic spaces, repeated gestures and small rituals can hold personal and emotional meaning.
I work across drawing, Chinese ink, printmaking and metalwork, allowing the idea to decide the material. Increasingly, my focus is the language between metal and paper. My background in sculpture and metalwork shapes how I approach the page, bringing attention to structure, repetition, surface and the physical act of making. Printing from metal plates brings the two together: a mark made in metal and carried onto paper, each material depending on the other. The repetition of printing, the same gesture made again and again, echoes the daily rituals the work is about, and each impression holds both sameness and small difference. This exchange reflects the subject of the work itself, how different materials, cultures and ways of living can exist together and remain connected.
The work is informed by lived experience, particularly the complexities of balancing family, care and creative practice, and by periods of caring and grief that drew my attention to small, quiet moments. There is also an ongoing dialogue between my
Taiwanese heritage and my life in Ireland. Through this, I explore how identity is formed through place, memory, family and everyday experience, and how a sense of home can be both tangible and continually evolving.
Rather than seeking fixed answers, I use making as a way to reflect, question and
understand.
