FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) is a durational performance installation for galleries and non-traditional performance spaces. In an intimate, choreographic collaboration between the artist’s body and sheets of copper metal, FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) explores processes of body heat generation and exchange during movement and rest.

Drawing parallels between the material properties

of the sheet metal and the artist’s body which experiences chronic pain, FORGED explores themes of dependency, intimacy, support and corrosion, as metal and body attempt to find a shared movement language in a delicate and precarious dance of give and take.

Through cycles of moving and resting together, a physical collaboration develops in which a disabled body and metal support enable each other's movement; bending, heating, cooling, resting, and imprinting on one another over time. Through this process, sculptural forms gradually emerge, holding on their surface marks of the physical exchange which has occurred.

FORGED premiered at Take Me Somewhere Festival in October 2023. 
 

​FORGED (in the tender heat of your embrace) is an Unlimited commission, supporting the work of disabled artists with funding from Creative Scotland and the Dave Toole OBE Bursary fund. Supported by Creative Scotland, Dance Base, Outerspaces, Present Futures, Studio Somewhere, and The Work Room’s residency programme.