I am currently working in Leeds, West Yorkshire as a professional horticulturalist and artist. I look after domestic and public gardens, deliver creative workshops around herbalism and plant care and I lead a collaborative project called Herb Study Club which explores medicinal plants through our senses, drawing and tea.
Previous organisations I've worked with include Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, the British Library, Leeds Queer Film Festival, Mafwa Theatre, Thackray Museum of Medicine, University of Leeds and Yorkshire Contemporary' along with many others.
My work is about the gathering of people around plants - the communion that happens when we sit to drink a cup of herbal tea, to smell a flower and the conversations it invokes. I’m interested in how that communion is shaped by our identities, our personal and collective histories and how we make sense of the world and this is a thread that weaves into every aspect of how I work.
Since January 2025, I have been on Yorkshire Contemporary’s artist development programme for early-career artists. Currently, I am using this time to explore how plants become part of our lineages, researching colonial botany and experimenting with watercolour and writing to document this research and my experiences so far.
Working in community is an integral part of my work - if you are interested in collaborating please get in touch!
Current Projects/Commissions
Sensory Garden at Rowland Road Working Men’s Club, Yorkshire Contemporary
Herb Study Club, Thackray Museum of Medicine
Selected artist on Practice: Leeds, artist development programme with Yorkshire Contemporary
Qualifications
Diploma in Social and Therapeutic Horticulture, Thrive (2022-Present)
RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Garden Planning, Establishment and Maintenance, Askham Bryan College (2018)
BA International Relations (First Class), University of Birmingham
First Aid Trained and Insured
Remembrance
In plants I find the way home.
The callings of my Guka echoing through the wind,
Sending messages through the dandelion seeds. Setting roots as they go.
It's not that I never learnt, it's that I have forgotten.
Shifts in time and space have caused this passing of knowledge. It’s still in the wind but those callings are carrying it back with them.
My ancestors are reaching me even if I am thousands of spaces away.
Through the plants I remember. They are the vehicle to belonging, to acceptance.
They are the elders I never met in human form but still know intimately.
*Guka means Grandfather in the Kikuyu language (my mothertongue)
