The

Layers | Para f l o r nalia | Metafauna

The Characters | The Pitter-Patters | The Drinkables | The Edibles | The Trashurables | The Vegans

Plastic | Metal | Paper | Fabric

Staged / layered photography

Rubbish, rubbish on the wall

I thoroughly enjoy working within both the ethical and the material limitations which this choice entails, working with material which often take years to gather.  In my world, rubbish acquires new uses, value and meanings, and becomes the undisputed protagonist of my artworks, as fun and beautiful a Cinderella as I can master it to be.

I use waste as a true substitute of prime material, and I cherish its value as the product of ingenious processes of transformation and employment of precious resources: my Trashure. Each one of my arworks is emotionally charged, as it is drenched in love and hope (with the exception of a few, rather catartically imbued with surrender).

Lastly, I realise how my background as a mosaicist provides me with a unique view and technique when transforming materials into individual tesserae, no matter whether by way of hammer and hardie or scissors and pliers: each tile with its own distinct character yet all interrelated within a multidimensional andamento.

If you are interested in any artwork (or commission), do contact me please! I will happily answer any question, work out any discount for multiple buys and the shipping fee, and revert by return.

Layers

Reimagining marine industrial waste as protective scales, or as various skins either unfolding or becoming, exploring the possibility of renewal from the very materials that damage ocean ecosystems.
Material patiently gathered, stored and finally donated by Amy Britton a fellow member of Project One Wave.

Para f l o r nalia

Continuing my research on ways to make the viewer empathise with our seas. Showing the beauty of life underwater as a thriving, precious garden, emphasising its richness and abundance, and connecting this imagery to historical depictions in mythology and religion as the ideal afterlife or paradise, the non plus ultra. Something we could have here on earth, if we learnt how to take proper care of it.

Metafauna

The Characters

The Characters is a groundbreaking series of abstract portraits made entirely from waste. Each piece imagines a person whose traits emerge from the colours and materials used.

This body of work stands as a radical act of eco-artivism and inclusion. It challenges conformity by celebrating fluidity, complexity, and difference. Circles - never straight lines - dominate the compositions, symbolising the organic, non-linear nature of life and selfhood. Each portrait asserts bodily autonomy and resists categorisation, offering a visual philosophy that honours those who live outside the box. 

The Pitter-Patters

Developed during my residency with Insights Of An Eco Artist, this series explores the connections between man and water and invites empathy towards a part of our eco-system we are not so familiar with by appealing to common experiences.

The Drinkables

Deploying my sommelier skills into my art practice, virtually tasting aromas and flavours for each piece I lay. Playing with the idea of using waste to represent something we crave to ingest instead, to break the bias between discard and digest.

The Edibles

Playing with the idea of using waste to represent something we crave to ingest instead, to break the bias between discard and digest.

The Trashurables

Exploring the space between presence and absence, where everyday domestic objects become sites of memory and longing. This series depicts simple home furnishings-a chair, yarn, a cup on a table, marbles beneath a stove-as symbols of what displaced Palestinian communities have lost, transforming the ordinary into the precious.

Each work, titled simply, serves as both catalogue and lament for domestic life that now exists mainly in memory. This basic vocabulary echoes the elementary language refugees must learn to communicate with the outside world, desperately seeking help and a place in foreign countries. The orange and blue items are made with discarded rescue dinghies, carrying the visual memory of journeys across dangerous waters in search of safety and asylum.

The background is equally important: each item is surrounded by used newspapers documenting daily global atrocities. These simple domestic objects emerge from headlines of contemporary violence, creating a dialogue between relentless news cycles and the quiet human need for safety and belonging. The confused pattern of the newsprint represents the despair of recorded suffering upon which this strong desire of home asserts its existence.

The childlike painting style evokes the interrupted lives of Gaza's children, channeling the universal language of childhood's creative expression-that innocent moment before trauma disrupts the relationship between desire and possibility. This visual vocabulary of innocence rising from documented cruelty transforms viewers into witnesses, confronting them with children who dream of normalcy as a radical act.

The works function as talismans-they become shrines to the ordinary, where a simple item transforms into an altar to the hope of return.

The Vegans

Nature in its Nemesis: Perennial Plastic

The Queen of Trashure: Marvellous Metal

Quell by the Quill: Plush Paper

Vanity leftovers: Fantabulous Fabric

Staged / Layered Photography

Next
Next

Statement