I am currently undertaking a PhD in artistic research at the Royal College of Art in London. Working from my home studio, I explore the materiality of silk to contribute to health and healing discourses within the broader fields of applied and contemporary art practice.

As a visual artist and researcher, I use silk to register shivers, shudders, and shimmers. Attentive to the material, metaphysical, and mystical ties that knot mind, body, and environment, I fray silk; unraveling affect through repetitive, meditative motions.

Moments, memories, problems, and places* are patched together through an auto-theoretical weaving of materials, imagery, writing, and reading into poetic explorations of dis-ease. Affectively moved by the radical healing potential of silk and craft techniques, I seam embodied experiences with the inherent vitality of materials to explore the porous thresholds between solid/ethereal and self/other. 

Please find my CV below, and feel free to get in touch for price lists, collaborations, or other inquiries.

rthglmr@gmail.com