I am a practice-led researcher situated within the histories and legacies of the Black Atlantic. Working through an auto-ethnographic framework, I engage contemporary metalwork as a site for examining diasporic memory, embodied knowledge, and material agency. My research project, Metal Ruptures as Embodied Ethnography, positions the African Diasporic body as a vessel of time, memory, and inherited practices, interrogating how material processes can articulate lived and intergenerational experience.

My practice is grounded in a practice-led methodology that integrates metalwork with film, poetry, and photography to construct narrative and reflexive inquiry. Central to my approach is the use of hydroforming within the jewellery and metal object-making field. I employ hydroforming as a non-traditional and disruptive technique to interrogate paradigms of craft, challenging normative assumptions around perfection, refinement, and authorship. The resulting objects are formed through water and pressure, generating ruptures, contours, and points of repair that serve as material analogues to corporeal vulnerability and resilience.

My research contributes to contemporary discourses in metalwork by synthesising traditional and non-traditional making practices. The pressurised environments inherent to my processes evoke historical and structural conditions, drawing conceptual parallels to the Middle Passage and to contemporary systems of oppression. Through this critical engagement, my work advances a materially grounded investigation of diaspora, affect, and the politics of making.