I work with traditions and folk customs through a mode that is research based and collaborative. This produces photographs, videos, and installations that playfully reflect the strange sense of friction created by marking long-established customs in a modern world.

Many of these works are performative, dealing with the elements of tradition that link people to the past while addressing how these practices ground identity and connect to specific places. Recent exhibitions have featured artistic responses to museum artefacts, where I work with the structures that define folklore within a historical framework and re-examine how it is mediated in cultural institutions.

An ongoing thread in my practice is the way folklore is tied to humour and imagination. These are valued elements of my work and remain central to the projects I produce. My doctoral project at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki explored these themes, specifically the sense of wonder that folklore inhabits and how it unfolds through artistic practice. I am originally from Aotearoa New Zealand and currently based in Berlin.