Domestic Bodies
Das Heimliche
Living in an uncertain reality, the amorphous lines between ourselves and our now limited environment start to merge. These spaces have moved beyond their initial function of safety and comfort into something eerie and uncanny. My paintings seek to explore this environment- the domestic space in relation to the body and the mind, while tackling themes ranging from the loss of the sense of self, feminism, politics and religion. This is expressed through the distortion, fragmentation and incompleteness of the body- body of anonymous and often faceless characters that inhabit my work. These figures are only understood in relation to their immediate surroundings, as an extension of their shared consciousness. The aim of these images is to instigate a sense of quiet introspection, as we continue to repel and embrace our surroundings and ourselves.
Figure 1
Domestic Collection
2021
Oil on Recycled Paper Bag
44.5cm x 37cm
Figure 2
Domestic Collection
2021
Oil on Recycled Paper Bag
44.5cm x 37cm
Lamp Head 1
Domestic Collection
2021
Oil on Recycled Paper Bag
35.5cm x 28cm
Lamp Head 2
Domestic Collection
2021
Oil on Recycled Paper Bag
35.5cm x 28cm
Bed Hair
Domestic Collection
2021
Relief Print
30cm x 25cm
Straighten Yourself Out
Domestic Collection
2021
Relief Print
30cm x 25cm
Drink Me
Domestic Collection
2021
Relief Print
30cm x 25cm
Mother
Domestic Collection
2021
Relief Print
30cm x 25cm
Forniphilia?
Domestic Collection
2021
Relief Print
30cm x 25cm
Embryo Tank, Fish Fit Too
Domestic Collection
2021
Relief Print
30cm x 25cm
This series of works is made up of 6 simple colourful relief prints, each one speaking to its own issue and criticising an aspect of the domestic, whether this be the repression of female sexuality, the disregard of the mother as more than a tool of domestic existence and once again the loss of the self to the environment. In each print the conflictive interaction between space and the female body is shown in the way the surroundings envelop, fuse or challenge the figures till some of them become almost unrecognizable- yet in doing so they speak for one another, through a form of shared consciousness.
Three Lamps and One Window
Domestic Collection
2021
Oil On Canvas
121cm x 69.5cm
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