I create mixed media work including collages, installations, paintings, and sculptures to explore deconstruction and post-structural ideology through a feminist lens.

As our collective understanding of gender shifts and moves beyond the binary of male and female, cis-heteronormative depictions of the female body still remain at the forefront of mainstream media. Through my practice I explore how the presentation of female bodies and narratives have shifted by gathering imagery together from a range of sources and time periods. Ranging from the subtle kitsch of everyday tabloid pornography to devout artistic depictions of The Madonna.

Through intuitively layering imagery, ranging from pornographic to ecclesiastical to purely decorative, I explore the ennui and general sense of inauthenticity that stems from being overloaded with information.

In my collages I conceal, gloss over, and scrape away imagery, until mere traces of figures can be found, in an endeavour to leave the viewer with an uncanny feeling. I’ve recently been influenced by the distressed aesthetics of frescoes excavated in archaeological sites such as Pompeii, specifically the way the artwork is embedded within the walls. In response I have been working with porous materials such as plaster to create compositions that feel as though they are embedded within the material.

I’m also interested in how textile materials, often stereotyped as feminine, and confined to crafts and decorative work, can be confronted in fine art. Recently I’ve been utilising lace patterns as painting motifs to obstruct or veil imagery. These patterns are reminiscent to me of the floorplans of religious structures such as St Peter’s Basilica. I’m interested in subverting traditional methods of making and displaying work, endeavouring to create spaces with a haunted quality that feel as though they’ve recently been interacted with, for example, an imprint left on a cushion.