Society normally projects a fetishised and saccharine view of childhood, is this true? Is this helpful? Childhood is filled with wonder and innocence but it can also be scary, children can be harsh and unfair. I search for ways of representing this ambiguity and exploring the reality of what it is to be a child and also a mother, re-experiencing childhood through her daughters.
Spray Paint, Acrylic, Oil on linen
140 x 100 cm
2023
Spray paint, Acrylic, Oil on Linen
115 x 150 cm
2023
Having a child reflects back at you; your own mortality, your own pain, your own beauty that over time you may have pushed down an appreciation of. Sometimes the most seemingly innocuous things are the things that mean the most. Singing in the car, arguing over who has the first shower... This project explores all those "nothing " times that aren't photographed or painted, through the eyes of a mother looking at other mothers who are also daughters.
The memories are etched in a persons memory, the memories you can barely taste but are woven inside you, they mean the world. A tiny yet vast world that no one else can see.
The Dactyl series is an investigation into consent and the dissemination of sexually explicit material.
Steel, Porcelain, Cotton threads, Cable ties, Soil
1.5 x 1.5 x 3m
2023
She gave me breath, sewed me every piece,
each time my lungs filled I took what I could, the air was elastic and painful, it choked,
I made my breath to stone, so it can be felt.
The compulsion was a control, for things I could not,
I ate to perform an action that I never told,
my fingers brought up the bile and it stank,
I made me teeth to stone, so they can be seen.
My mouth can make words, it can sew it’s own now,
the words represent, they mark, they are not complete,
but they are mine, they are protection and release,
I make my words to stone, so they can never be forgotten.
Oil on paper
18 x 34 cm
2024
Ceramic and Thread
10 x 5 x 40cm
This piece was made in response to PLOT by poet and author Claudia Rankine. Plot is a complex meditation on pregnancy and the changes it heralds: the potential bodily cost, the loss of self, the sense of impending stasis. The piece was chosen by Claudia to be exhibited alongside other works at Chelsea College of Art in 2023 marking the re-launch of her book.
24 x 18 cm
Oil on linen board
2024
The negative space of a girl lies in a place made for her
I wake to shouts about nothing. Vulnerable,
Shouts become screams. The words are in my room
directed at me, the assume this is my fault.
Pushing and pulling, the waves have collapsed over me
she holds me under. Drowning, all I could do was my best.
I lie in bed crying, my bed filled with my ocean.
I cry again for that small girl. Defenceless
in her dreams until she isn’t.
Only now I see you through a mirror.
Sleeping so still, your breath so free.
The softness of your innocence. Defenceless.
I lay in my bed crying, I cried and I cried into my bed
My crimson blood filling me, the salt surrounding me.
I fight even now, to rest, to sleep, to dream.
Spray paint on Acidea Mulberry Paper
30 x 40 cm
2022
Spray paint, paper and masking tape on Acidea Mulberry Paper
30 x 40 cm
2022
Oil & Spray paint on linen
30 x 18 cm
2023
Glass and steel
15 x 9 x 21cm
2021
Glass and steel
28 x 18 x 31cm
2021
Oil on canvas
150 x 180cm
2022
Glass and steel
60 x 35 x 27cm
2021
Oil on canvas
300 x 150cm
2022
Latex, elastic and steel
69 x 140 x 35 cm
2022
