My creative work tends to centre on the experiences and issues that affect women in their everyday lives and the natural world and our relationship with it. I like to distort recognisable forms and explore the movements and distortions of the body. I'm inspired by the beauty in the mundane and love to explore the abstraction that can be perceived of the female body in particular and the relationship between the body and itself internally and in regards to external pressures and viewpoints. Our society has been formed around the patriarchal hierarchy and as women, we are taught to adjust our natural instincts and to adapt to this culture of the male gaze, we are constantly assaulted by the idea of perfection and can be led to feel alien or monstrous in a body that can tend to work against us. Man has been the Subject for so long, women have been relegated to the position of the Other.Through abject imagery I explore the abstraction that can be perceived of the natural female form and the relationship between the body and itself internally and externally. As we embrace the destruction of the perfect, maybe we can embrace ourselves and finally perceive the unnatural as normal
