My work is both a celebration of femininity and an act of defiance against patriarchal constraints. Drawing from grotesque theory and the monstrous feminine, I use exaggerated, amorphous female forms to challenge and subvert beauty standards, and reclaim the body as a site of power and transformation. Influenced by the occult, cinema, sci-fi, campy vintage horror aesthetics, and strange beauty contraptions from both past and present - I construct eerie, timeless, suspended realities that expose and subvert oppressive ideals. The theatrical aspect of my work aims to satirise notions of performative femininity, and the absurdity of beauty as ritual, transforming symbols of objectification into rebellion. Through macabre humour, monstrous forms, and fragmentation, I create space for the unruly and untamed body and spirit. The alchemy of paint itself becomes a messy protest, creating leaking, sutured forms that resist containment and reflect multiplicity of identity. In this chaotic interplay I create bodies that emerge not as passive objects of beauty, but as autonomous and ever-transforming forces of resistance.
