A fictional photographic narrative told from a single found object - a small framed charcoal portrait of a woman ‘Mrs Eyles’ made by another woman Betty Steer in 1962.

I found it in a Hackney charity shop and took it back to my studio, where it began to resonate. I started to consider the everyday lives of women in this period and over the years. Thinking about their ‘place’ in society and the feminist movement. When I started this work ‘Me Too’ revelations were being discussed across the media and amongst friends.

An accompanying text imagines the act of these two women coming together, one to draw the other. And contemplates ideas of unity, solidarity, the sisterhood and quieter forms of feminist action or resistance.

Part still life, part landscape and part found imagery this series forms a cryptic story, set within a claustrophobic domestic stage. There are occasional images of escape – that are perhaps, not actually accessible.

I want the work to acknowledge the everyday actions of ordinary women.

Originally from West Yorkshire, I am a London based artist and photographer. In my work I am interested in narratives and experiences of the everyday, that sit within, jolt against and speak about wider society. I mainly use still life photography, but combine it with landscape, found imagery and other staged work.

I like mixing camera formats and work across digital and analogue sometimes in the darkroom, using hand cut collage and digital manipulations.