His & Hers

His & Hers

His and Hers explores the superficiality of gender identity and cultural expectations of a society focused on a binary classification of sex. Second hand clothing has been re-purposed, embroidered with synthetic hair to reveal the innermost aspects of the human anatomy on the most outer part of our projected being: our clothing....
Play With Me

Play With Me

Play With Me is an invitation. The work delves into the levels of intimacy from the sensuous to the grotesque. The skeleton sits naked, devoid of any flesh, skin or organs. The sexual zones of the anatomy we associate with pleasure are missing from its body, it is physically empty. Though unable to feel any form of pleasure or comfort, it still begs the viewer to touch, to experience, to connect, in an almost infantile manner. The bare bones covered with fur lure the viewer with the promise of sensuous contact. Though its body is soft to touch, its temperature is cold, and its bones are hard, it is tantalizing yet wretched to behold. Our experience of intimacy is thus confused. This work attempts to open our awareness of our bodies and the levels to which we experience the pleasure of intimacy. Will you play with me?    ...
Object of My Affection

Object of My Affection

Video and gallery for the Object of My Affection installation. Object of My Affection is the first in the Mattress Series. The work explores female sexuality from an aggressively passionate perspective. The act of burning represents destruction but also passion the mattress as the remaining remnant left after a heated moment in time, with the video component exploring the memory of the act – slowed down, distorted and fetishised. The aim was to explore sexuality not as a passive receiver, but as an active peruser....