Artist Statement

“As a neurodivergent transdisciplinary artist, I am driven by exploration, continually pushing the boundaries of my practice across diverse mediums—textiles, sculpture, beadwork, installation, video, cyanotype, acrylic painting, and embroidery. My work is a sustained investigation of how relational presence across time and material can emerge when imposed colonial, institutional, and social narratives are disrupted.

Through my artistic practice, I have recognized a conceptual through-line: a focus on ancestral relationships, temporal tension, and the integration of lived experience across multiple identities. This recognition informs my ongoing research-through-making, where each work contributes to a broader inquiry into what happens when memory, loss, and futurity are held together rather than resolved.

My practice is deeply grounded in an Indigiqueer, disabled, and neurodivergent perspective, informed by Indigenous futurism. I explore the intersections of identity, ancestry, and lived experience, addressing grief, joy, intergenerational histories, disability, queer and kinky embodiment, and the vital work of situating these experiences relationally and materially.

Across mediums, I aim to remove or disrupt imposed frames, whether archival, institutional, or societal, thus allowing the inherent presence, relationality, and complexity of ancestors, non-human relatives, and self to emerge. Through this work, I aim to invite viewers into a space where the entanglements of past, present, and speculative futures can be felt, witnessed, and reconsidered, while fostering connection, reflection, and possibility.” – bailey macabre, 2026