Carried Over
2025
Carried Over gather’s stories from my father’s side; tracing what is passed down, what is set aside and what endures. Each piece holds a story of inheritance, and together they reflect on the ordinary ways necessity and desire shape my intergenerational life.
A Letter From Gran
Pen on Card
A letter recalling my great-grandfather’s art scholarship, never taken. Fifty years in the steelworks followed instead. A life shaped by necessity, the pull of creativity left in the margins.
Finishing School
Acrylic on Canvas
A hen lays
to nurture and protect.
Despite her care, the context is set.
A system beyond her control.
Production in motion.
A Painters Desk
Sculpture
Once my great-grandfather’s surface for study, it was gifted by my grandmother to become my tool. Now I sit, connected by the grains, the marks and the ambition.
Dance of a Real Dream
Oil on Canvas
An abstract oil painting where dreams rise and reality grounds. The composition holds their negotiation: One pulling to weight, the other to lift, each shaping the other’s form.
Sun Run
Acrylic on Plywood
Hung above my brother's workshop, this painting reminds us that tomorrow will be the same as today - it will all keep spinning whether you keep up or not.
Between Jobs
C-Type Print
My father, laptop open to the 9-5, while laying stone on the farm wall. Two forms of work overlap here: the required, and the passion - the compromises endures.