Timelines – the body, language and time 2023 – date
An ongoing project formed through residencies with Barnsley Museums and Heritage Sites and supported by research across Yorkshire museum collections.

This evolving body of work explores how language is inherited, embodied, and transformed. Drawing from psychoanalytical ecology and Lacanian thought, the project examines how we are formed through the language we’re given, how it imprints itself on the body, and how it shifts across generations and geographies.

The act of making becomes an excavation of this inherited language — an attempt to unearth what has been absorbed unconsciously, shaped by culture, memory, and place. Through layered image-making and processes of accumulation, works emerge as traces of traces, with the origin image always receding. Materials are worked into and reworked, process laid over process, echoing the psychoanalytic pursuit: unfinished, recursive, always in flux.

Timelines reflects on the instability of meaning and the porous boundaries between self, landscape, and language. It considers how the body carries what language cannot express — and how the visual, in its fragmentary and provisional nature, can begin to speak.