My graduate show work is interested in the queer dancing figure, accessing vulnerability through ecstatic dance, and the aesthethics of nostalgia.
Nipples like Raisins/ Bum like a Belgian Bun is a plaster-cast portrait stood between the crisp girliness of ballet class and the wobbling guilt of unrealised desire. As a kinetic sculpture, constantly turning at a hauntingly slow pace, I suppose the cast stands in for my body as a performance artist.
Weather Forecast is a performance of aspirational frenzy, performed daily at 1pm. Believably nonsensical, the report uses language to question our increasingly passive approach to communication in consumer culture. As a storm begins to brew 'in the hat of England or the scarf of Scotland', the forecaster begins to tap-dance, bringing a manic and erratic energy to the truly mundane. In my performance practice, I often build works around characters rooted in cliched career aspirations. A chance to try on different hats and explore what feeds mundane desires - aesthethics, lifestyle manifestation, percieved sexiness?
