I explore ideas around decay/preservation, protection/vulnerability and embellishment/fashion with regards to the female body, often through a still life lens. I attempt to re-establish new narratives, highlighting the importance of ‘the tale’ and the power of education through storytelling.

Motifs of stomachs and eggs often appear in works, symbolising points of origin and fertility, where new discourses are birthed and old ones decay. Such symbols which swell and hatch, reflect and transgress both contemporary and historical pressures and boundaries imposed upon the body. Taking from personal experiences, where one is preyed upon for not fitting a desired ‘look’, I embed cage like structures and tied ribbons, alluding to passed fashions such as the crinoline skirt and corsetry.

I create hybrid figures using experiments and casts of found objects printed as banners, which become advocators and protectors of positive narratives which escape the ‘frame’ and celebrate.