Making the Mental Physical (series)
Making the Mental Physical, is a series of individual sculptures which have been realised over the course of several years of the artist's career. The common thread in which all the sculptures sit is an attempt to make physicall the intangiable emotions of life such as depression, anxiety, empathy, and greif. Each work is of the artist's own body and dispalys an amount of autobiographical narrative.
Casts of the artists own thigh gap the work shows the deterioration from left to right of the casting process and the deterioration of the body through anorexia nervosa. 2019 Six plaster casts and metal eylet hooks Dimensions variable
Hung at thigh gap height, casts of the artists own thigh gap the work shows the deterioration from left to right of the casting process and the deterioration of the body through anorexia nervosa. 2019 Six plaster casts and metal eylet hooks Dimensions variable
Cast of a handkerchief belonging to the artist's grandmother. Cast after her Grandad passed away. 2019 Plaster and polymer filler Approx. 19 x 17 x 0.6 cm
Close up of the detailed texture of the cast of a handkerchief belonging to the artist's grandmother. Cast after her Grandad passed away. 2019 Plaster and polymer filler Approx. 19 x 17 x 0.6 cm
The cast seen here of the artists own spine under this title alludes to the effort and hardship of keeping at bay anorexia nervosa. 2019 Plaster cast, fiberglass scrim and string (documentation of performance) Dimensions variable
In Being Ana the artist takes on the burden of the sculpture and in doing so the burden of anorexia nervosa is visible. 2019 Plaster cast, fiberglass scrim and string (documentation of performance) Dimensions variable
Wearing the sculpture Ana, the artist treks through her hometown in Suffolk from the place where anorexia began to her old home. Passing by the town centre, the artist does not stop, but keeps walking, an analogy for anorexia nervosa. Performance Dimensions variable
2020 Plaster cast, fiberglass scrim and string (documentation of performance) Dimensions variable
coming from the phrase 'to walk in someone else's shoes' this pair of canst shoes belonging to the artist show the marks of their wear and give a glimpse of the artist herself. 2019 Two Plaster casts and ribbon from the original shoes Dimensions variable
Installed as part of Home Truths (2020) 2019 Two Plaster casts and ribbon from the original shoes Dimensions variable
A dip in the cast of the pillow where a head once was is a reminder of feelings of lack of presence felt when suffering from depression. But the sculpture is perhaps a reminder that despite our absence in the world, we are still loved. 2018 Plaster cast and fiberglass scrim 46 x 71.3 x 16.5 cm
Installed at Quayside Galley in Ipswich UOS (University of Suffolk). 2018 Plaster cast and fiberglass scrim 46 x 71.3 x 16.5 cm
Home Truths (2020)
Set up in a spare room during the 2020 Corona Virus pandemic, this solo exhibition of works by the artist explores the use of a domestic space. Both presence and absence are played with in this eerie exhibition as it become inhabited by both sculpture and drawing to form a familiar yet alien space.