CURRENT PROJECT

HOW ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER:
A STORY OF RECOVERY

MA Fine Art, Falmouth College of Art : Final Major Project : May - July 2025

‘How one thing leads to another: a story of recovery’ is a body of work composed of a multi-media textile piece, 221cm high x 133cm wide, worked with stitching and text, using a body-mapping methodology; and a video, duration of 16 min 56 sec, where the viewer encounters a storytelling of why and how the work was made.

Both pieces are autobiographical covering a period between Oct 2023 and May 2025. Beginning when at the age of 54 I had a heart attack, a health crisis then complicated further by a university policy that would only allow me to pause my studies if I repaid the module fees – a cost I just couldn’t afford. With no time to process, and no time to heal I had to push on from my hospital bed or lose it all. This in turn led to a deterioration in my mental health, loss of creative practice and a year-long hiatus in my MA Fine Art final project.

This body of work is a response to these unfolding events, becoming a vehicle for healing and repair; a personal recovery, where the kinship of support networks, and the significance of place have been explored through a body-mapping process guided by the theoretical frameworks of auto-theory and psychogeography.