12th June 2026 – Exhibition

In my paintings I use performative self-portraiture to examine the construction of images throughout art history. I’m interested in the dual roles of truth-telling and mythmaking within figuration. I am interested in the largely uncredited role which the artist’s model has played in the history of art, the depiction of women in the western figurative tradition, and the wider ubiquity of the trivialisation of feminine-perceived labour. I use my own body and the camera as instruments to magnify and distort the boundaries between what is real and what is the “work” of composition, lighting, and painterly flair. These private and domestic performances are processed first through a camera obscura, then a digital camera, and finally through painting. The resulting images are informed by a collage of digital residue, painterly mark-making, and muscle memory. Through inserting myself into the compositions I remain in control of both sides of the canvas. The subjects of these paintings are less representative of their classical references but more about grappling with the dichotomy of fact and fiction within the artist’s desire to create new realities and the desperation to represent their own.

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