Pocket Prophecies: Ancient wisdom from Shetland Stones, 2025.
A booklet of 34 watercolour paintings with accompanying descriptions that turn the chosen pebbles into a tactile divination tool. A collaborative project led by Kerttuli Uusimies.

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Noaidi-vuoigŋa (Transl. Sami shaman’s spirit), 2024
Newspaper, paper mache and wool. Shot on 35mm film

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Pihlajatar (transl. The goddess of Rowan), 2024
Cardboard, acrylic paint, flowers, fallen leaves and Rowan berries. Shot on 35mm film

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The Mudkin, 2024
Cardboard, mud, acrylic paint, leaves and dried weeds. Shot on 35mm film

I made these pieces as a part of a folklore-inspired mask making workshop I facilitated on a festival in Somerset, July 2024. I encouraged the participants to explore folklores and characters that could be, text materials beyond the ones provided and find what spoke to them in the surrounding environment.

Other masks created during the workshop.

In Shetland, my friends and I participated in a beach cleaning event, Da Voar Redd Up. With the found materials, we made creations that ended up in the local news paper.

Swan Hat, 2025
Marine debris

Marine debris and shells from Heylor beach

Merman Mask, 2025
Marine Debris, shells and seaweed

I made over 40 sauna bench towels out of discarded cotton and linen fabrics. I also made a logo and two animated versions of it that work with the sauna theme.

Animation - click the top head to view

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Calculus, 2024
Multimedia

Process based on playing and experimenting -->

This project started during a
hike where I asked my
friends to all pick up a few
pebbles they were drawn to.

At home, I instructed everyone to paint their favourite rocks and collectively we gauged the tactile nature of these rocks. Based on these feelings, we wrote out a little oracle-card-like blurb for each of them.

Divination circle

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Shadow Clock, 2024
Multimedia

Crafts and experiments --->

Natural dye trials

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Still Life?, 2025
Multimedia

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Outrun Quote Read by Joss, 2025
1.18

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Shetland Retreat/Residency, 2025
3.55

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The animated piece is a gif compression of screenshots from the full animation, press it for full version on instagram.

Uncomfortable conformity, 2021
Inspired by Malvina Reynolds’ song Little Boxes, I created several posters and gifs, capturing the sense of being trapped in societal expectations, also experimenting with printing techniques from stencils to carved sweet potato stamps.

Clarity X Distance, 2023
A multimedia piece exploring perception and perspective

The Black Box, 2023

Multimedia piece with a hexagon projector box, audio with interviews and a short film on a quilted screen.

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Fragmented realities sewn into one. We’re only ever peeking into the lives of others and as their existence extends beyond our reach, we take the role of an artist. The goal may be likeness but even in mental portraits, some angles remain hidden.

Reconfigurations, 2020

The Tallest Witch in Town, 2021

Creating a character for a friend's performance with the prompt:
"tavallisen epätavallinen taruhahmo" ("usual yet unusual story character").

Advice Cards, 2021

ROOTS, 2021
Two risograph zines, several websites and root shoes

I processed wild clay found from a forest and the sea this spring and summer. The creatures are made by me, the pot is made by a friend Hannah Uprichard

A bag/backpack embroidery

Like any sensible human, I love rocks. The shapes, the colours, the feelings. Ancient yet curious. I couldn't possibly (and shouldn't) pickup all the ones I adore so sometimes I simply document them, by painting or photographing, to soothe the materialistic need to possess beauty.