Body of Work :

DRAFT SELECTION OF WORKS;

1. Murmuration, – from poem to charcoal to sculpture. A metaphor for mental health issues focussed on the female role in society today.

‘Our Fears like Starling’

Murmuration – captured in charcoal, inverted to negatives.

Charcoal on Vintage Napkin :

Creating 3D Form. Sculptural Exploration using Machine Detritus :

Murmuration 1

Video: Churning

Domestic Setting: Murmuration 2.

2. Abject Materiality – beauty from the abject – (felted machine detritus photographed in sunshine)

Beauty from the machine : Digital photograph tint manipulation for quadtych.

3. Family detritus.

4. Large Scale Sculpture : Murmuration 3 – ( Felted machine detritus )

Murmuration: early creation photographs in the domestic enironment

Below: showing stitched construction.

4. Murmuration: Performative work .

5. Nod to Sarah Lucas:

6. Hollow Vessels.

Hollow – ‘ individual’

7. ‘stacked’ – (below)

8. Uniform of the Female Domestic : moulded and preserved in wax .

Mummified apron – with voice.

9. Voices and Conversations – mixed media sculptures with industrial starch and digital manipulation.

10. Ruin – Found objects .

Exploring the negative feelings towards the notion of home. The found debris from the rubble of ruined buildings concerned the assumed domestic bliss shattered by anxiety, depression, homelessness, displacement, domestic abuse, war and refugees.

Early detail below:

Ruin – Triptych

Individual: below

Ruin – ‘through the shadows’

11. Domestic Machinery – ‘the hidden inners‘

‘Under Pressure’ – raw material detritus details before moulding.

Below: Inner machine workings: manipulated moulding:

12. ‘Objects of us’ – Exploration of detritus as a history of us in the context of the everyday.

‘Cup of us’

13. ‘All stacked up’

Bottom left: ‘All stacked up. 1‘- digital manipulation.

Bottom Right :All stacked up. 2′ – in cold light.

‘All stacked up. series 1‘- digital manipulation.

All stacked up. Series 2′ – in cold light.

14.The Everyday – ‘performance’:

15. Visual and Haptic Photography – photograph with site found mixed media

16.’ Venerate‘, a coming together. ( collaborative project)

‘Venerate’ – is a work concerning the essential and pared back notions of ‘femaleness’. Exploring across culture and ethnicity it comes from a place of belonging, shared experiences and the common bonds of being female and what that necessitates within us.

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