Exhibitions:
Degree show: 'The Space Between Us', Group Exhibition (2020)
Essex/Online
'Surveillance Pigeons'
‘Surveillance Pigeons’ (2020) is a total room installation, located within a garden shed, that is capturing a scene within an unidentified characters life. Items around the room, tell an overriding story of what it’s like to live in the mind of someone with an intense and overpowering obsession. It explores themes of surveillance paranoia, with a twist. The focus is shown through the pigeon motif, that represents surveillance, without technology as its basis.
The story created within this artwork, aims to encourage the audience to question what is real, and what is simply the delusions of a tortured mind.
'Cathartic' (2019)
University of Lincoln
For this work, I wanted to create an interactive installation, that invited audiences to partake in the activity of shredding up pieces of tissue, that had previously been written on by the participant. The idea of writing down your problems and then shredding (and dumping) them was supposed to focus on the feeling and relief of catharsis.
'Bodies of Practice' (2018)
University of Lincoln
For this project, I really wanted to look at the representation of mental illness online, focusing specifically on conversations that take place on social media platforms (e.g. Snapchat and Instagram). I created a wallpaper installation, that invited audiences to get up close and read the interactions I had with peers and strangers online, about their experiences and interpretations of stigma.
'Safe Space' (2019)
#BeFrankAboutMentalHealth
St Mary's Guildhall, Lincoln
This exhibition was a collaboration with a group of students. Our idea, was to create a safe space to explore ideas and concepts surrounding mental ill health. I created a character, named Frank, who was a personification of depression. I created a series of sculptures, that I would disperse around the exhibition space.
Accompanying this, I published a book, full of illustrations, which was a day-to-day exploration of life with mental illness.
This collection of work seeks to illustrate how inner demons can present themselves at anytime, anywhere, even in the most mundane of places, in both size and gravitas