Sad in Svalbard

My work engages with the intricacies of queer identity and queer shame through an exploration of craft-personship as a methodological approach. I’m especially interested in the ‘functional’ or ‘household’ object and how it can be manipulated to house a queered feminist narrative, pulling the line between mundanity and performative excess. In my most recent work, Sad in Svalbard, I explored these themes through collaborative means, working with artist Jorja Timms to recontextualise loneliness into a productive and creative outcome, all the while attempting to resolve the tangled mess of emotions that is the queer psyche. Taking from personal experience and indulging in armchair psychoanalysis to create tactile pieces of absurdity is the basis of my artistic practice.

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Sad in Svalbard, 2021

cotton drill of various colours, gold jacquard, green corduroy, pink velvet, faux cow fur

3000 x 2500 mm

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Sad in Svalbard, 2021

cotton drill of various colours, gold jacquard, green corduroy, pink velvet, faux cow fur

3000 x 2500 mm

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Sad in Svalbard, 2021

cotton drill of various colours, gold jacquard, green corduroy, pink velvet, faux cow fur

3000 x 2500 mm

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Wife Material, 2021

sterling silver, wood from an apricot tree, parsley

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Wife Material, 2021

sterling silver, wood from an apricot tree, parsley

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Wife Material, 2021

sterling silver, wood from an apricot tree, parsley

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Wife Material, 2021

sterling silver, wood from an apricot tree, parsley
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Dream Analysis: 25 Fried eggs, 2021

yellow, black, white, and gold acrylic yarn, three baroque freshwater pearls, wood from an apricot tree

600 x 400 mm