School of Fine Art Sculpture & Environmental Art
Polly Stevens
My work brings embodies a surreal, animalistic interpretation of the inner troubles and identity crisis’
of a young, feminine psyche within westernised Britain.
I use influences from my no longer practising, Catholic family with religious iconography to nod to ideas
behind losing faith in ones self and the environment that surrounds them. This influence situates itself in a
merge between nature and the domestic as I explore the exposure of female pain, remorse and frustration in
a space that actively tries to repress it.
These feelings evolve themselves into fanciful characters expressed through masks, reimagined domestic
imagery and traditional women’s labour processes. When used in conjunction with the female form and self
portraiture I exhibit sole agency over my body in which allows me to create an auto-fictious narrative
driven by child-like fantasies with ominous undertones.