THESE STORIES KNOW YOU

A black sculpture of a boy with his head bowed, standing on a small platform, with a fence in the foreground, against a plain white background.

GATE KEEPER 2025. PATINATED BRONZE (UNIQUE) H23 x W10 x D14 (cm)

Photography- Mathew Stanton

Alien Instrument 2025, Patinated Bronze, (Unique) H21 x W24 x D13 (cm)

Safe Keeping 2025, Patinated Bronze, (Unique) H38 x W22 x D25 (cm)

Dark Defiance 2025, Patinated Bronze, (Unique) H51 x W35 x D28 (cm)

Uncanny Odessey 2025, Patinated Bronze, (Unique) H31 x W22 x D25 (cm)

Black sculpture of Pinocchio character sitting on a block, with a large mirror in front of it, reflected on a white background.

Journeyman 2025, Patinated Bronze (Unique) H51 x W26 x D28 (cm)

These Stories Know You is grounded in my ongoing exploration of memory, materiality, and the uncanny. For this body of work, I have returned to objects I made as a child—fragile constructions of cardboard, paper, and glue—and remade them in bronze. This act of transformation reflects my central idea: to explore how memory can be re-embodied through material processes, and how permanence can be given to what was once provisional.

By recasting these forms, I seek to examine the tension between vulnerability and endurance, between the fleeting nature of childhood and the weight of its lingering presence. The uncanny is a guiding lens—the strange familiarity that unsettles and fascinates, the way ordinary spaces can become charged with ambiguity. These sculptures revisit moments where fear and imagination entwined: a cupboard that never quite closed, a hallway that stretched longer at night, the quiet dread of being watched by something unnamed. Through these works, I aim to understand how such impressions persist and shape identity.

The drawings are intended to extend this inquiry. To operate as maps of psychological terrain, tracing the unresolved spaces from which the bronze forms emerged. Together, these works aim to hold the complexity of remembering and affirm the strength found in facing what was once hidden.

Doppelganger 2025, Cardboard, Ink on Fabriano Paper, 26 x 38 (cm)

Wounded Storyteller 2025, Cardboard, Watercolour, Ink on Fabriano Paper, 26 x 52 (cm)

Odessy, 2025 Cardboard, Pigment Liner, Ink on Fabriano Paper, 26 x 52 (cm)

Gracious Reader (Chapter 1) 2025, Cardboard, Pigment Liner, Ink on Fabriano Paper, 26 x 38 (cm)

Gracious Reader (Chapter 2) 2025, Cardboard, Pigment Liner, Ink on Fabriano Paper, 26 x 38 (cm)

Ring of Truth 2025, Cardboard, Pigment Liner, Ink on Fabriano Paper, 26 x 38 (cm)

Alien Instument 2025, Cardboard, Pigment Liner, Ink on Fabriano Paper, 26 x 52 (cm)

Hollow Note (Messenger) 2025, Cardboard, Pigment Liner, Ink on Fabriano Paper, 26 x 52 (cm)

Mute Journeyman 2025, Cardboard, Pigment Liner, Ink on Fabriano Paper, 26 x 52 (cm)

Teachers We Seek 2025, Cardboard, Pigment Liner, Ink on Fabriano Paper, 26 x 52 (cm)