So I Don't Forget: July-September 2024, the Art Space at Cass Art, Manchester

 

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My first solo exhibition brings together works made between 2020 and 2024, charting a shift in my practice toward something more personal, reflective, and emotionally driven. It begins with abstract paintings from the end of my degree, responding to childhood grief and memory. Painted solely from recollection, these pieces use bold colour and abstract motifs to capture shifting spaces and feelings over time.

A Place to Grieve is a triptych accompanied by a zine—an immersive blend of childhood spaces, music, and text that explores the complexity of loss. A Conversation Between Friends, shown in Black Wall Collective’s Trojan exhibition (Islington Mill, 2023), takes a quieter, more minimal approach to the recurring, intangible nature of grief.

More recent works, created for Out, Alone at Sea (AFOS Collective, 2024), reflect on adolescence by the coast in 2010s Britain—part ode to seaside teenage years, part tribute to the music that shaped them. Inspired by King Krule’s Seaforth, these pieces are full of nostalgia and quiet melancholy. Stitching, introduced in these works, has become a meditative and healing element in my practice.

Together, these works reflect a personal process of revisiting and reshaping memories—transforming pain into something softer and more hopeful. While grief can be isolating, sharing it through art makes it feel a little less lonely.