I work in both digital and traditional media. I create digital collages focusing on animals and/or human figures as my primary subject matter. I also create expressive and colourful mixed media traditional artworks using materials such as paint, ink, masking tape and sandpaper. I like to generate my own textures and draw, paint, photograph then scan my textures.
My artworks form part of a body of work that I am currently creating titled “Sleeping Over at Other People’s Houses.”
The series visually explores the darkness and complexities of the emotional and mental lows felt over the last three years due to compromising on held values and truths. The title itself is a metaphor for compromising the values and beliefs that one holds and adopting another’s in order to win favour with them. By choosing to compromise, one is no longer “sleeping at their own house” but “sleeping over at another’s.”
These artworks embody heartache, pain, grief, anxiety, uncertainty, abandonment, confusion and rumination. They explore notions of fearing men, deviating from truth, keeping idols and compromising to one’s detriment.
I want my work to create a visceral experience that encourages and propels viewers to tap into the complexity and obscurity of the emotions that they feel and to recognize that they exist within a liminal space.