Artist Statement

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My practice explores girlhood in relation to voyeurism, performativity and the relationship between a viewer and an exhibited object. Combining elements of sculpture, ceramics, lens-based work and performance, this manifests itself through installation work, a continuous attempt at creating immersive spaces of which the viewer can become a part. 

Using the process of mould-making, a common practice within the film industry prop-making sector, allows the physical work to mirror the film theories informing my practice, particularly Laura Mulvey’s influential male gaze theory and Barbara Creed’s Monstrous Feminine. My goal is to build a conversation surrounding the glamour that is persistently placed on women's suffering in film by translating it into physical work.   

With the persistent surveillance we are all under, my aim is to question the viewer’s shame or otherwise, interest for voyeuristic and violent imagery while drawing a heightened sense to the subconscious act of performing for oneself and others.