ABOUT

Opening

I began exploring London's alternative communities in 2014, running events, organising groups and ferociously investigating the nooks and crannies of the city's erotic underground. Rope arrived in my life in 2016. I could not have imagined the lasting effect it would have on the way I understand attention, intimacy and the body.

The practice gave me a different way to communicate. It showed me that physicality and sensuality could be thoughtful, creative and integral to the way I lived rather than isolated behind a closed door. It also gave my restless mind a task exacting enough to become quiet.

From architecture to rope

My background is in design and architecture. I still recognise that training in the way I work: structure and load, material and tension, negative space, movement, context and adaptation. A rope pattern is never separate from the body carrying it. The same structure changes across different anatomies, intentions and moments.

My practice

I have studied the techniques, emotions and aesthetics of Japanese rope practice and developed an adaptive style that blends Eastern and Western references without pretending they are the same thing. I am interested in the emotional spaces a tie can create and in the small decisions through which those spaces are built: the quality of touch, the pace of a rope, the use of breath, the management of weight and the clarity of an agreement.

I work with beginners, experienced practitioners, artists, performers and people whose bodies do not match the narrow images often shown online. I do not begin with a physical ideal or a fixed script. The practice must adapt to the person.

Intimacy in public

Shibari has moved from private subculture into galleries, studios, festivals, education platforms and popular media. I am interested in what is gained and lost in that transition. My work does not deny rope's erotic and professional histories, but neither does it reduce the practice to sex. Rope can be platonic, sensual, artistic, technical, erotic, meditative, ridiculous, severe or tender. It is often several of these things at once.

Teaching and research

Teaching has formed the backbone of my professional practice. Through private classes, workshops and collaborations, I help people develop technique without losing the reason they wanted to tie in the first place. details matter. So do timing, body handling, communication, creativity and the ability to notice when a plan needs to change.