My work draws from elemental methods of making at the centre of which are reflections on the cyclical energies of movement through line and form. I make tactile, sculptural objects and installations, textile jewellery, collage and assemblage that explore themes of portability, modularity, and flexibility. I’m interested in the interrelationships between process, action, and materials by practicing repetitive hand movements with minimal tools. By reflecting on the impact of actions on materials, physical acts of making are infused with sensory responses such as knottiness, entanglement, density, and lightness. Complex forms are created from simple elements created through processes such as wrapping, coiling, knotting, layering and hand-stitching.
Unwanted textiles, clay and additional found materials are transformed by responding to colour and tactility as form and their structural possibilities. Many materials and ideas I work with are related to my British-Gujarati heritage. Through my work I explore the connections between the personal and the universal. My projects continually revisit the repurposing of materials through unpicking and reusing. Through site-responsive projects I explore states between lived experiences of people moving through physical spaces.
I regularly work with the public and community groups encouraging participants to respond to their own visual and tactile senses through materials and to support intergenerational learning experiences.