I was invited by Ringwood Gallery to tease out the tensions between functionality of objects and their gender associations. To take as a starting point the ideas fixed to an object which imbue meaning beyond their intended purpose. Predictability The purse is often represented as a badge of womanhood, old fashioned and traditional in status; […]
Tempt The purse is often represented as a badge of womanhood, old fashioned and traditional in status; a metaphor for women’s status. In this Idée fixe exhibition the purse symbolises the heart, opened with absolute care to expose its tempting centre; closed through the domestic sense of predictability, sameness and reliability; and taking flight with […]
Flight The purse is often represented as a badge of womanhood, old fashioned and traditional in status; a metaphor for women’s status. In this Idée fixe exhibition the purse symbolises the heart, opened with absolute care to expose its tempting centre; closed through the domestic sense of predictability, sameness and reliability; and taking flight with […]
The lotus perfectly embodies the soul, rising up through the murkiness of worldly experience until it reaches the surface of the spiritual realm and blooms, vibrant and pure, free from all taint and attachment. The Lotus stalk with its sinuous fibres is hard to break. It tenaciously holds the plant together and refuses to separate […]
As my own future has been enhanced though education, I made the Open Book images in celebration of the term ‘blue stockings’ the coloured stockings worn by male intellectuals in eighteenth century Britain. The history of women’ who sought to enter the educational arena were often given the derogatory title of ‘blue stockings’ thereby condemning […]
In this series I use pomegranates to capture the sentiment of Joy Division’s lyrical melody ‘Love will tear us apart again’. The image titles in this series, Auricle, Aorta, Ventricle and Atrium symbolise the blood road of the heart and reinforce the destruction brought to Persephone by Hades irrevocable pomegranate.
Inspired by my 2006 association with Curwen Print Studio in Cambridge, UK, I embarked on a change of style with this body of work, complementing the photographic with the hand drawn. These hand drawn, hand printed lithographs on photo plate play with the royal colours of purple and gold as well as the historic colonial […]
This ‘Game Play’ series is about love, reflection and the dissonance of relationships. Using bocce balls, trugo mallets, discs, dancing styles and pastimes as representations of the games of life, we see a jumble of meanings around us. The challenges of life are present in the many colours of human spirit, courage and insight.
The lithographic works making up the ‘Winter Series’ explores the secret affinity between daily metro travellers as they collectively battle the wintry elements. In the experience of the weather, the metro commuter looks out on life from under the umbrella, merging into one, their backs turn on the world until the change of season reawakens […]
This Little Sister series explores the child represented as fragile floating images suspended in dreamlike pastel fields, creating a symbolic play between figure and ground. The child form often appears to simultaneously push out of the image and yet remain anchored or pulled back into a ‘context’ bereft of any social or architectural inscription. This […]