My main body of work focuses on the institutional aesthetics of a commonly used object and how that image of a male identified object can be reappropriated. It highlights the sociological and repressed evaluation of what the urinal represents in contemporary culture and identifies the association between mass produced items and man-made objects relating to the body and stereotypical gender roles.

Pink Urinals stems from my early experience as the only female surveyor on a construction site and the continuous sexist behaviour of male colleagues.

Pink Urinals are a component of a series in which body forms—male, female, phallic, pregnant belly, androgynous, fluid, and non-binary—are portrayed through the creation of slip clay ceramics and other softer materials using an inverse cast of the original urinal cast.

Other parts of my Degree Show works are based on memories of childhood, fragility and absence. I alternate between the two areas and use humour or oddness in some of the work all the while exploring the body through material play and form.

Chosen materials; soap, expanding foam, crystacast, jesmonite, slip-casting clays, clear acrylic and others.

Dissertation was a joy to write. The Nazi aesthetic that shaped the Degenerate Art Exhibition 1937: the controversy concerning the confiscation of Expressionist Art and the rationale behind it.

Invited to take part in the Society of Scottish Artists 126th annual exhibition to be held at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh from 23 November – 11 December 2024.