I am interested in investigating ideas and discourses around gender – women’s rights, identity and roles, the body, notions of the ‘interior and exterior’, beauty, possibilities, pregnancy and abortion – the full scope of being a female.

I employ collage, drawing, painting and printmaking for my creative works. Watercolour is the medium I currently using primarily as I like its characteristics – the light and luminescent effect and smooth aesthetic it presents, and how it takes partial control of the painting. My inspiration is formed mainly through fragments of memory and authentic feeling.

In my works, I largely attempt to examine and reflect on relationships between males and females, 'self' and 'other'. For instance, the deprived sovereignty of the female body from the male gaze. In this series, I have attempted to move from a commentary about feminist identity and rights to looking at the ‘external’ imaging of women and the manifestation of women’s rights via an expression of the inner self. I explore the inner self, and the inner relationships in the maternal body – between the reproductive organs and the foetus, mother and child – by creating an unseeable inner space; a womb-like interior; images of procreation and creativity; space with cells, veins and blood. I express the depression of losing intimacy and exorcise the traumas of the absence of motherhood during childhood. I would like to arouse feelings which are associated with contradiction, comfort and fear, a familiar/unfamiliar place, womb fantasies and  autonomous rights of the female body and reproduction.

The growing womb, 2021  

watercolour  

594 x 420 x 1 mm

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untitled, 2021  

watercolour  

594 x 420 x 1 mm

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