At 22 the artist created Family Album, an autobiographical multi-media installation and book of her early life growing up in the East End of London during the 60’s & 70’s. The installation a tribute to her family as she shares the intimacy of the family unit. The artists foundation and training in the classics of the Renaissance, Ruben’s and Rembrandt and this new medium was her first departure into her own means of expression. It was also the first time her writing would become an intrinsic part of her artwork. The work plays homage to the three women who most influenced her, her grandmother, mother and sister and her uncle also an artist who died at the early young age of 27 of leukemia.

In the work the artists intent was to share with the viewer the warmth of her families domain. She created a room similar to her grandmothers kitchen or her mother’s shop; a room where people stayed awhile to reflect, feeling embraced, not rejected or judged. Her mother’s over-played cassette tape of a Mama’s and Papa’s tape with all it’s flaws in sound quality from overuse played in the background and warm lighting from side lamps provided by each of her family members was placed at the side of their family album drawing and gave soft lighting to the room. Childhood portraits on each of the four walls were overhung by a central hanging work ‘Our Hands Uniting’ a charcoal drawing on handmade paper of each of their hands uniting in the centre of the piece. Her autobiography was placed by the sewing table in the room, with a chair where people could sit and read. The piece told the story of strong individual women with different personalities and where they came together and what united them. The backdrop to the autobiography paints a picture of life in the working class East End London during that time.