Patchwork: found fabric, Singaporean batik, clothing worn pre-pregnancy that no longer fits, bedsheets slept on during first month postpartum, wool batting, embroidery thread, Indonesian Meranti timber, concrete and bronze.  

240x230x60cm   
 
I make patchwork quilts, paintings on unstretched canvas, and sculptures that explore cultural and material hybridity. Born in Australia to a mixed Australian and Singaporean family, I draw on this experience and my recent experience of becoming a mother, to explore shifting ideas of home and belonging.

Histories are embedded in the materials and techniques I use.. My quilts draw on my grandmother’s quilting practice and incorporate fragments of my clothing and postpartum bedsheets, honouring my experience of matrescence. My paintings use family photographic archives, concealing or cutting away the figures. My sculptures incorporate bronze and reclaimed Burmese teak, referencing public monuments and the legacies of British colonialism. Through casting, I preserve the imprints of significant objects, turning traces of cultural memory into material form.

My work attends to histories that are precious, fragile, or often overlooked: migration and mixed-race identity, mothering, my Grandmother’s textile work, and the Dutch and British colonial spice trades in Southeast Asia. Singaporean Peranakan craft — particularly batik, with its fusion of Chinese, European and Malay influences — is a key reference. Underpinning my practice is the understanding that memory lives in objects and materials, and that making itself is an act of care and cultural continuity.  
 
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