Ritual in Healing 

A Ritual in Healing focuses on the custom-made dress, which is silk-screen printed with fragments of text, describing personal experiences of facing and grieving the trauma of family addiction. In the performance, the artist moves through the Scottish landscape before washing the dress in an attempt to remove the writing until her skin turns red with cold. The project was informed by healing and cleansing water-based rituals, seen practised globally, and with particular interest in Pagan or Celtic traditions.   

Hares on the Mountain 

Scottish landscapes have long been romanticised as wild places, despite the majority having been drastically altered for hunting and agriculture. Hares on the Mountain connects the land ownership of the Cabrach, an upland area on the northernmost fringe of the Cairngorms, and its impact on the people and animals living in and around the area, reflecting wider issues experienced across the country. 
 
The performance subverts the gender relations of the folksong, which in historical iterations used more violent anthropomorphous language to describe men pursuing women, before shifting to adopt the imagery of hunting. The ritualistic repetition and subsequent breakdown of the song become a meditative grievance for all life forms that have experienced violence and displacement, offering opportunity to reclaim these spaces and heal the relationships between ourselves, other species and our landscape.