What is the title of your graduate show work?

'Draw the body back in to me' / 'Dod â’r corff yn ôl i mewn i mi' (Welsh title).

What is the project about?

The work I’m showing at the graduate show is an installation that incorporates sculpture, film and audio work.

The work focuses on the notion of materiality and physicality between bodies and the space surrounding. Working collaboratively with my twin sister Jasmine, we question how the body is viewed and try to test and expose possible choreographic opportunities or moments of difficulty and awkwardness for the body.

My work is activated by the presence of a body; the viewer becomes hyper aware that they are watching something and that their interaction with the work may be watched.

There is an ongoing dialogue between the body in the space and the body that is referenced in the work, using moving image as a material to manipulate through digital choreography.

How do you best like to work?

My practice is drawn from a first-hand empirical way of working.

The work embodies an archival approach – a wealth of collected material is consistently presented, scrawled over, interpreted, unravelled and questioned.

I am very much an artist who is constantly in the studio, my practice is broad and multidisciplinary which allows me to work collaboratively with other artists, which is really exciting and keeps the work fruitful.

What have been the highlights of your time at ECA and living in Edinburgh?

Some of my highlights while studying at ECA have been the group exhibitions with my course mates at Whitespace and Embassy gallery.

Engaging in and networking with the Edinburgh art scene has also been a highlight.

Do you have any plans for after graduation?

I hope to stay in Edinburgh and be able to get a studio here and grow contacts across Scotland.

I’m also hopefully going to visit the Venice art Biennale; I particularly want to see Scotland in Venice exhibition.

I’m also planning to create and design a Welsh language zine named Flow/Llif which will feature female artists that are practicing in Wales or Scotland, whose practices engage with the landscape or language in one way or another.

Is there anything you’d like to add?

I have been the recipient of three awards; the Andrew Grant Scholarship, awarded by Edinburgh College of Art (2021); Yorkshire Graduate award, awarded by Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2019); and the Young Artist Scholarship, awarded by the National Eisteddfod of Wales (2019). I have recently exhibited at Y Lle Celf at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.