ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice challenges the issues underlying Western social constructs, and has explored enquiries including: racism; sexism/misogyny; impossible beauty standards; as well as the commodification and destruction of nature. Other ideas my practice has explored that have been less politically driven include: hope and regrowth; abstractive and narrative satire; romance; and disturbing or distorted surrealism.

The mediums employed in my work have been traditional art-based materials such as acrylic and oil paints on different types of surfaces. Furthermore, the works have had an emphasis on the aesthetic and composition (rather than materials utilised) to critique ideas in the works. The techniques and processes used in my practice have been highly influenced by baroque and renaissance painting styles, while in other instances they have been focused on realism and/or surrealism techniques and processes found throughout post-modern art history.

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My most recent artistic endeavour seeks to use the anthropomorphism of animals as a critique of humanity, and may evolve from a series to a whole new creative style.

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