I am an interdisciplinary artist from South Yorkshire currently living in Cardiff. I mainly work with video but also expand into genrative digital media, installation and digital collage. With my practice I create highly saturated humorous art that aims to toe the line between fine art and humour, sci-fi and erotica.
My work centres around subverting traditional notions of femininity. Deeply embedded in elements of feminist sci-fi, the abject woman and complex sublime world building. Intense sensory elements, purposely abrasive and soothing, are ingrained into my practice to agitate and confront the viewer. A place where the abject body is also seen as an object of fascination and eroticism. Something you are immensely drawn to that you cannot look away from. The abject becomes objects of curiosity, titillation and entertainment. Extremely seductive and sexual.
Using humour, voyeuristic snippiest of imagery titillates and seduces the forced infantilisation current society has enacted upon us. The tactile objects become a visual portrayal of my own desires of materiality, creating a surrogate for physical connection and pleasure. Thus creating my own intimate world of fabricated femininity by means of solo performance and the looped gaze. In this the camera becomes an observer that I perform to. It records an explicit experience of myself to myself. I become the observer observing myself.
Education
2014 – 2017 BA Fine Art
Cardiff School of Art and Design
2019 – 2021 MA Fine Art
Bath Spa University
Awards
2017 Dulcie Mayne Stephens Art Trust Award
2017 Even and Felicity Charlton Travel Award
Residencies
2021 - Emerge, Bath
Present
2022 - School of the Damed
2023
Exhibitions
2014 Anatomy fixation, Venture House, Rotherham
2017 CSAD BA Degree Show, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff
2019 CwmafanFest, Ty Celf, Cwmavon
Empower Me!, G39, Cardiff
MADE Winter Exhibition, Cardiff MADE, Cardiff
Under the Counter Culture, Tactile Bosch The old Vicarage, Cardiff
2020 Umbrella, Capitol Shopping Centre, Cardiff
Untitled, Bath Spa University, Bath
2021 The Coded Cube, Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath
Masters Degree Show, Bath Spa University, Bath
2022 Death of an Object, Sion Hill Gallery, Bath
WDT 2:4, Wet Dove tail, Online
Emerge in Wonderland, Sion Hill Gallery, Bath
Exposing Deviance, Brew Hull, Hull
Pale Pink, DareShack, Bristol
GWP, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath
7 Seconds, Fringe Arts Bath, bath