About me

Ithink women are amazing! We hold up more than half the sky! And I love how empowering it is for women to support other women. Not every woman has a voice or if they do, may be unable to use it. So it’s important that those of us who can, raise ours, in support of those who can’t.

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Taking inspiration from the female forms found in Renaissance paintings, which are typically by the male gaze for the male gaze, my work reimagines these women and reinterprets them through the female lens. My work is not overly concerned with ornate depictions, rather I give the women a sense of enablement and self determination. I use multiple flat layers of paint to generate large figurative paintings in bold bright colours that create a sense of visibility and empowerment.

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Weaving the narratives from myths and legends together with historical images that accompany them, I interrogate how we express and influence cultural attitudes about contemporary women and other marginalised figures and how this effects gender politics.  Identity and body image are core influences in my work and how women are impacted by societal Gatekeeping, where individuals or communities are excluded from, or policed by, the broader community to which they belong, and are impeded from participating in discussion, from entering a space they would otherwise be entitled to, or from claiming and expressing their own identity.