🗣️ Statement

My artistic practice investigates the complexities of human emotion, behaviour, identity, and cultural memory through mixed media. I work across painting, drawing, stencil, newsprint, fabric, collage, and other materials to create layered compositions that examine personal experiences alongside broader social narratives.

The human figure is central to my visual language. Through stylised and semi-abstract forms, fragmented faces, bold outlines, symbolic motifs, pattern, humour, and illusion, I explore the contradictions and complexities that exist within human experience.

Fabric occupies a particularly important position in my practice. I collect discarded Ankara textiles and transform them into components of my compositions. For me, fabric carries more than colour and texture; it carries culture, memory, origin, identity, and stories. By repositioning materials that have been discarded or overlooked, I explore ideas of transformation, renewal, value, and belonging.

My use of reclaimed materials has developed into an ongoing body of work titled FABRICation. Through this series, I bring traditional textiles into dialogue with contemporary painting, creating works that connect cultural heritage with modern experiences.

Experimentation remains fundamental to my process. I allow materials, colour, texture, and form to influence the development of each work, creating an evolving dialogue between intention and discovery. My narratives can be direct or allegorical, but I aim for each work to leave room for the viewer's own interpretation.

Ultimately, I use art as a means of questioning, remembering, and communicating. I am interested in what happens when familiar materials and human experiences are rearranged into something unexpected—and how that transformation can encourage us to reconsider the way we see ourselves and the world around us.