My paintings depart on a deliberately different tone to my video and sculptural work. My main goal was to splice two worlds together, repulsion and attraction. Atypical embodiments are frequently sat between fetishisation, taboo, conflicting narratives, and pose threatening questions in rigid societal binaries and constructs, what does it mean for me if I am attracted to this?

I use the ‘monster’ within this body of work as a vessel to explore that tense and fine relationship marginalised bodies have with their role within world. Instead of beautifying what has been cast as monstrous, grotesque, or taboo, I indulge in that and use its uncomfortable energy to drive the imagery. The monster is not always as blatant as a wolf-man or vampire, and when my goal is to instil discomfort, I often move towards more deconstructed monstrosity as seen in this series of paintings. I’ve found safety within on-screen ghouls, but I’ve found real discomfort comes from the dark, wet, erogenous features of the human body and what happens when that is played with, what happens when you are enticed.