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'51 Birchfields (Friends At A House Party) 2023'
Oil paint, felted mould, paper (studio waste), charcoal, wood and glass frame, oil pastel, dust rag, wire, trim (factory waste), on canvas
The painting ‘51 Birchfields (Friends At A House Party)’ is a sculptural painting showing ripped wallpaper under a grimy wall, on which is a mini painting on canvas wrapped board framed in a generous wooden frame, wrapped in a dust cloth as though it’s a blanket. The image of 3 stick figures smiling in a messy room filled with the aftermath from a party, the grainy painting implies blurry photographs taken early in the morning, memories of moments of respite in what looks like a dark period.
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‘Things fall apart,’ 2023
Chicken wire, studio waste, human hair, waste fabric cuts and trim from local factories.
‘Things fall apart,’ 2023 is about my experience going from homelessness to having stable housing, what it looks and feels like. Something I’ve really struggled with is keeping things tidy and organised and this piece ‘Things fall apart,’ 2023 is specifically about that. If you’ve not had a place to put things how do you put them away. When I lived in shelters my clean underwear kept getting stolen and it used to really upset me but I came up with this way of keeping people away from my belongings where I would rinse empty crisp packets and rubbish out and dry it and put it in my stuff, I put dye in a sanitary towel to make it look used, and made it all look really messy and gross and by making my stuff look dirty and unorganised people generally wouldn’t go through it in a shelter because they were scared of coming into contact with needles. Going from that to having a sock drawer is not easy thing to do and the whole experience feels like this piece does. -
‘DISGUSIA’ 2023
40 cm x 50 cm Studio waste, oil, pigment, charcoal, medium, felt, steel hooks, ceramic cups on canvas on wooden board
This piece is about leaving things in the sink ‘to soak’ because you are too depressed to do them. It’s also about living in a squat where there was a herpes breakout because people weren’t washing the cups properly and even though I no longer live in those circumstances I wash clean cups before using them at other peoples houses and often put handsanitiser on them in cafes. The character featured on the cups is a cartoon character I draw called ‘Pink Cat’ who is always in comedically tragic scenarios.
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Self Portrait as a Virgin 2023
195cm Tights, male mannequin (landfill waste), soft plastic, studio waste, clay, glaze, knitted squares cloak, wire, rope, string, metal rods
The body utilises a male mannequin’s body, with soft sculpture elements to fill it out into a female body. Naked, vulnerable, parts of the mannequin, the soft plastic waste they are stuffed with, and a pink rope harness are only just visible through the layers of tights which form unnerving flesh. Their large ceramic head exaggerates my own features and their expression is of one who is paralysed by circumstances out of their control. I chose to leave the eyes without pupils and the hands without fingers because it adds to a level of uncanny valley which tricks the mind, when faced with something which looks human, our eyes seek to make contact with it’s eyes to see the pupils react and dilate, and to count the fingers on it’s hands, and when they are not there it takes a person longer than it normally would to register that the subject is not a living human and longer still to realise what elements are missing despite looking directly at them. They are wrapped in a hooded cloak made from some of the knitted squares I used to make blankets for my instillation ‘Your Room’ in Pollen in April. This represents the added extreme vulnerability of a female bodied person who is homeless. -
‘WORMSELF’ 2023
Socks (saved from landfill waste), studio waste (tights pieces), string, thread, ceramic face
’SELF PORTRAITS AS PARASITIC WORMS’ 2023 (S.P.a.P.W) (part of The Centre Cannot Hold’ 2023) These pieces are about survivors guilt, feeling undeserving of safe housing because you don’t deserve it anymore than people who you know who are still on the streets. Specifically feeling like an investigation in your own home when you are incapable of living in one as you have not yet adjusted to doing so.
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