In the last few years, I have also moved into creative practice, making images and objects as part of my academic work.

I have always made things, but it was more ‘unofficial’, what would be called amateur: designing and sewing clothes for me and my children; making curtains and other domestic textiles; embroidering samplers; and making knitwear. Women in my family have always been ‘handy’, turning their skills to threads and fabrics to clothe us all and to furnish our homes. My beloved Norwegian-English grandmother always had her knitting needles close by, and her home was always full of beautiful textiles.

It was during my Slime Diaries project that I realised I was not just writing academic texts but ‘making things’, using words to make performances and creative non-fiction pieces, and experimenting with different moving images to make short films.

As part of the feminist design group Domestic Monsters, I took the leap and started making work for exhibition, beginning with designing a pattern of front covers from the 1970s serial publication Superwife, printed onto bolts of fabric, to make into capes; and making a set of prints on transparent film of a pair of rattan mannequins. These works were part of our inaugural exhibition ‘The Domestic Monsters’ at The Constance Howard Gallery in 2023.

My current making projects include:

• The Drowned Book, with designer Laura Potter: a set of three prints made from a copy of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s book Tractatus, which journeyed with us on a visit to his Norwegian hytte. This work was exhibited at the show CRUD at Safehouse 1, Peckham, London, in October 2024.
• Dynamite Hidden Under The Peachy Skin: a moving image piece drawing on the work of Catherine Malabou’s book The Ontology of the Accident exploring identity post-trauma. This work was exhibited as part of the Reflecting Change show at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, in January-February 2025.
• The Diagonal (Leave Me Alone Now): a set of six prints reworking a painting by the British twentieth-century artist Euan Uglow with a text written against the image. This is still a work-in-progress, with an aim for exhibition in summer 2025.
• Cleaning Up The Slime: a set of ten embroidered tea towels, with text from my creative non-fiction writing about slime in the domestic. These are currently in production, with the aim of them becoming protest banners, to be carried through the streets by the Domestic Monsters. I am aiming to exhibit them later this year, in autumn 2025.