Who are you?

A British – Israeli visual artist. Director and chief curator of Be’eri Gallery for contemporary Art. A mother of three children.

What is your creative area of expertise?

Visual arts – photography based installations. My work is image based. For some years now I have been manipulating the images in various ways. Collages, embroidery, digital collages, whatever is needed conceptually and visually for the work. Now I think more of installations, the images have different functions that are bigger that what is going on inside the frame.

Main inspiration?

My life and biography. Light, science, poetry, sci-fi, natural history museums, folklore, prehistoric art and nature.

Tell us a little bit about the work you chose to share

The hybrid creature on the verge of life is a relic from the past, from an exhibition called ‘event horizon’ that I had at the Man and Living World Museum in Israel. After Oct 7 I returned to those ideas, of life awakening, of hybridity and evolution, to find a way back to living a full life. The black rock was added, it is an addition I carry around now.

What is your work process?

Varies wildly. But everything begins with a deep urge to see something appear in the world. It will wake me at 4 in the morning. Small visions, or deep attractions to materials, and then I will research, read texts of all kinds, ideas are highly inspiring to me. Then I open a folder on my computer and dump everything in there. I carry a small notebook with me, I write down fragments of words, concepts and images. Some ideas I carry with me for years until the time is right for them. I begin testing, materials, images, texts and how they connect to this world I build in my head.

One special moment that happened to you this year

This year was full of the most extreme things. But i would say that after almost a year living in a hotel by the dead sea as a refugee, after Oct 7 destroyed my home. We moved back temporarily to Be’eri. I woke up in my house, made a cup of coffee, and sat outside watching the sun filter through the trees in my garden.

I felt at peace for the first time since everything was destroyed. 

A piece of advice

All bad days feel better with chocolate involved.

What’s next?

Art, love, life, home.

If I am lucky,  all of the above, in no specific order.