about

I am an artist and feminist art activist. I survived non-State torture by family and others in my childhood.

I create art in different mediums: charcoal, acrylics, mono prints, Lino cut prints and drawings.

When my memories emerged, I drew many pencil and pen stick drawings to tell.

I make art in activism to raise awareness of the torture and trafficking of children by family and their like-minded friends in informal criminal networks including ritualised torture and in child crime-scene photos and films.

I contribute my artworks to books, articles and educational work around non-State torture.

I began unsilencing my story along with using my art in activism at events, workshops, national and international conferences in 2009 when I was part of the organising team that produced a groundbreaking UK conference on Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, where two of my paintings were in the conference art exhibition.

In 2011, I made a Lino-cut poster to raise awareness of non-State torture (NST) and entered it in a UN competition on the theme of ending violence against women and girls. I based my Lino cut print design on the wood engravings of Octavio Roth of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Since 2011 I have taken my NST poster to marches, shared it at conferences and exhibited it in art exhibitions, all to name that torture happens in the home and other private spaces by criminal perpetrators all around the world.

I share my art and my story because we need human rights recognition of non-State torture, legal justice and social recognition.

In December 2022, my NST poster was used as a flyer at the UN in Vienna: Exhibit at UN Vienna Rotunda – ‘Stop Non-State Torture: Enforce the Human Rights of Women & Girls’  This poster and a poster I created entitled Torture Tools formed part of this exhibit too.

At the CSW in New York in 2015 I spoke on a panel on non-State torture and at the 24th session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) in Vienna in May 2015. 

In 2019, I was an invited speaker on Art and Activism at Robinson College Cambridge Feminist Society.

One of my paintings, Out of The Shadows, was selected to be in an exhibition alongside the work of twenty four other artists at the Civil Society Forum in Geneva on 28 October 2019 and then at the UN for the regional review meeting on Beijing+25 at the UN in Geneva from 29 – 30 October 2019.

On 23 May 2025 I spoke with my art to illustrate sharing some of my healing process on a virtual side-event during the 34rd Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), Vienna: Family and Non-Family Non-State Torture (NST), Human Trafficking, & Femicidal Risks: A Person/Victim-Centered Approach organised by Jeanne Sarson and Linda MacDonald.

I’ve been exhibiting my art at FiLiA conferences and exhibitions since 2014, in London, Salford, Leeds, Bradford, Glasgow in October 2023 and Brighton in 2025. Through FiLiA my art has also been exhibited in Brazil and Argentina. I’ve spoken at FiLiA 2015 in London, FiLiA 2018 in Manchester and at FiLiA 2025 in Brighton.