From 2020 Heather began dealing with a number of health issues, which brought a new ritual to her art practice. Through visual art, theatre, poetry, crafts and radio, she was able to translate feelings and experiences into visual and creative concepts as a form of healing.

Her visual style developed through journaling in sketchbook sessions. Documenting her situation with words, imagery and inspiration and turning the ideas into larger collages using salvaged materials almost metaphorically. Each piece is allowed to grow, expand and deteriorate, much like the human body and its disposability in the corporate world. With poetry featured in a protest manner.

Painted during an intensely drowsy spell, and after a visit to Kers Gallery exhibition “Theta Dream – In the end we are all a bunch of moving fluff” by Lotte Wieringa. She felt instantly connected to the term “moving fluff” as a means of communicating her physical health symptoms.

The piece uses textures, collage, and dreamy colours in an attempt to find clarity through perpetual paracetamol, sickness, and brain fog.

Materials: expanding cardboard, paper collage, acrylic, paracetamol packets.