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

High Branch 2025, Patinated Bronze, (Unique) H30 x W21 x D9 (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 explores how childhood forms, once fragile and provisional, return transformed, unsettling the boundaries between memory and material. Through this body of work, I aim to create a space where the familiar becomes strange, where early impressions resurface in altered form to question what it means to carry them forward.

I have revisited objects I made as a child, simple constructions of cardboard, paper, and glue, remaking them in the same materials before casting them in bronze. This process is not about replication but about re-embodiment: giving weight and permanence to what was once temporary, and asking how transformation changes our relationship to the past.

The uncanny is central to this intention. These forms recall the innocence of play, yet their cold metallic surfaces resist it. They are both intimate and alien, echoing the strange familiarity that unsettles and fascinates. By translating fragile, provisional structures into enduring bronze, I aim to evoke ambiguity: the sense that something known has become other, that memory can both comfort and disturb.

The work draws on impressions that lingered long after childhood: a cupboard that never quite closed, a darkened hallway that stretched longer at night and the quiet dread of being observed by something unnamed. Through these sculptures, I seek to explore how such impressions persist, shaping identity and perception in ways we rarely acknowledge.

The works on paper extend this inquiry, mapping psychological terrain rather than illustrating objects. They trace the unresolved spaces from which the bronze forms emerged, offering another way to navigate the complexity of remembering. Together, these works aim to affirm the strength found in facing what was once hidden and to open a dialogue about the enduring presence of what we thought we had left behind.

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)

Sound 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)

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

Verboten, 2026 Cardboard, Pigment Liner, Indian Ink on Fabriano Paper 26 x 52 (cm)