I am a multidisciplinary sculptor and educator. My practice explores concepts around gender, sexuality and bodily autonomy under the patriarchy. I gravitate towards the use of animal motifs or physically restrictive structures to translate feelings of control in society, usually through a feminist lens. I work primarily with drawing, photography, film, performance, metalwork and textiles. I tend to search for the vulnerable in society, the queer person, the mother, the teenage girl, those forgotten, erased and overlooked and I want to visualise that internal struggle to the outside world that often actively goes against them. I use the motif of the animal in my work as it represents a raw biological freedom to me that we are seldom encouraged to express. The kept animal also serves as a suitable metaphor for the socialised human experience. My recent body of work was a response to fears surrounding pregnancy, bioethics and reproduction as a means of worth under the pressure of an androcentric society. I focused on the sow and how it is subjected to its biology and how it becomes a producer, and compared it to the gynaecological pathologies that weigh down the lives of those born with a uterus. This led me to filming their restrictive breeding enclosures in industrial pig farms and hybridising that with the human birthing experience through the medium of video and sculptural installations. In my work, I like to translate subversions of power through contrasting stillness and movement to represent freedom or an inherent want or manifestation of freedom. I am quite interested in social constructions and how they result in the production of human behaviours. My recent bodies of work have focused on how the movement of the body can reinforce psychological boundaries or defy them in the same breath.
