The series Hope Is a Form of Planning encourages interaction with the documenting and sharing of gendered experiences through an empathetic lens. Researcher Dr Brené Brown defines stories as being “data with a soul” and in my art I often create ‘visual databases’, conveying a large amount of qualitive data in a creative and immersive manner. Encompassing installation, sculpture, print, and video, the body of work is comprised of three distinct pieces all reflecting on the corelation between identity, memory and systemic structures.

Inspired by the writing of Gloria Steinem and the art of Christian Boltanski, I combine historical and contemporary context with personal tales. In 2021 launched the website Log the Location for anyone who currently identifies, or has previously identified, as female to submit locations where they have experienced anything from sexist micro- aggressions to more serious gender-based harassments. The anonymous submissions are added to the interactive map that everyone in the community has access to via the site, creating a living archive of people's experiences that often get ignored, or never discussed at all, in order to make the invisible seen.

Originally only conceived for the Tayside region, the website has garnered over a hundred submissions spanning eight countries. Once locations are submitted, I photograph all of them within reach. Through developing my own two-part printing process, I aim to convey the fragility of our memories and the doubt we are programmed to implant in our minds when recalling sexist incidents. Using this process, a tangible database that viewers can step into and view all the submitted places at once is formed.