Familiar

Familiar

Having lived with long term depression and anxiety, I used goat skin leather to create a series of mask-like sculptures modeled off my own face. The fixed expressions play with the idea of “putting on a face” as a defense mechanism. The work aims to explore the duality of anxiety, with the title “Familiar” exploring the alter ego or “buddy” creating a sense of familiarity while also referencing the smothering sensation of distress and inadequacy. This series of leather sculptures has featured in Piss Poor Effort at 107 Projects and Stillness at gaffa....
Ladies Lounge

Ladies Lounge

Ladies Lounge (2017) is an installation and ongoing project that explores women’s bodies as sites of trauma for the purpose of entertainment in genre films. The series is in commemoration of those women “slain in battle” and is presented as a series of tapestries with accompanying video installation. Each image is the aftermath of an act of violence, with each victim female. By distilling each act down into static stitched frames the images are confused and abstracted. While violence against women is often fetishised on screen, it is worth noting that genre films (particularly Horror) have often been responsible for placing women in unconventional roles, way ahead of mainstream film. The time consuming method reflects the sycophantic execution of these scenes while pulling into question the slippery dichotomy of “women’s work” and the roles we play as victims, perpetrators and heroes.   Ladies...
Object of My Affection #2

Object of My Affection #2

This is the second work in the Mattress Series. Working with the time consuming technique of beading, I used the mattress as a signifier of intimate space within relationships. The technique of beading encircles and enhances the indelible marks left behind on an object which has come in close contact with the body. The sweat, blood, cum and fluids of sexual acts, emotional outpourings or bodily accidents all become individual markers in a narrative of intimacy.  The private life of the artist is presented in the gallery space.    ...
How’s Married Life?

How’s Married Life?

“How’s Married Life?” is a feminist reaction to stigmatization of women within the institution of  marriage. The artist’s body imagined as a cement ball-and-chain, the work plays on the idea of women as objects (or “wife” as ball-and-chain) while challenging the idea of “settling down” post marriage. With a mouth cast agape, open as if mid-sentence (women are often interrupted in our expressions of opinions – our voices often muted and of less value), the work challenges the gendered dichotomy of women as both necessary and burden, and the transformative expectation of “married...
Spectator-ship of Suffering

Spectator-ship of Suffering

  “Spectator-ship of Suffering” is a series of collages  delicately framed and hung on the wall with a magnifying glass. This work explores the commodification of imagery within the online spectrum. Through the process of gleaning images from news reports and social media, the collages underscore our exposure to human suffering and also how such imagery co-exists along side sexy, fetishised images of celebrities or cutesie kittens or other non-relevant junk in popular media – you have the privilege to lean in and explore the psychology of what we chose to transmit and...
Art, No Apart 2015

Art, No Apart 2015

This year I had the joy of being part of ever growing the Art, Not Apart festival again.  This year was bigger than ever with the whole New Acton precinct getting involved. My work was exhibited in the Mental exhibition which took place in an unfinished penthouse at the top of NewActon South. It overlooks most of the ACT. The exposed cement walls and wide open space was the perfect setting for the works featured. The artists featured were:  Daniel Savage, Hanna Hoyne , Betty Musgrove and Ad Hoc , Janet Angus , Victoria Lees , Jacob England, Celine Roberts , Kirsten Farrell. Here are some shots of the exhibition plus some of the sites and happenings of the day.  ...