Artist Statement
My practice explores female identity as something constructed and continually produced through repetition, adjustment, and performance.
Through my paintings, I develop theatrical scenes using found imagery that I collage and abstract in order to unsettle any fixed sense of time.
Centring on singular female figures, my subjects are seen navigating visually ambiguous environments. Throughout my practice, I draw from a multitude of sources, ranging from magazine advertisements to children's books and contemporary culture. I am interested in the way images can teach us how to appear, behave, and ultimately be observed.
Working primarily with acrylic, ink, and water, my process uses staining and layering in order to destabilise the painted image, creating spaces that appear unanchored, neither historical nor contemporary. Rather than forming singular narratives, I aim for each painting to operate as a fragment from the same world, connected through gestures and recurring motifs. In doing so, I investigate the moment an image becomes a performance, where the relationship between the figure and their surroundings no longer feels natural, but consciously enacted.
As the work has developed, references from different eras have started to collapse into one another, allowing historical imagery, glamour photography, and costume drama to leak together until time feels unstable and deliberately artificial.
The way I choose to display my paintings has become an extension of the work itself rather than a neutral method of presentation. Working with loose fabric, I aim to disrupt fixed authority by allowing folds, creases, and movement to remain visible, echoing the artificiality and instability present within the imagery itself.
