projects

Works based on ideas and experiences undergoing major surgery. WIP

Voyeurism

2019

Exhibitionism and voyeurism as queer sensibilities. 

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These works belong to a study of voyeurism and the role it plays in altering, and perhaps bridging, the relationship between public and private spaces. I previously looked at public toilets as a strange plane where public and private somehow overlap. The interactive piece is a contemporary paper peepshow constructed from foam, card, acrylic, (digital scenes printed) ink on paper, hot glue and LED lights. This piece appeared an unassuming block box but bending over (ha) to look through the peephole provides a new world. (interior @ https://vimeo.com/321777245) 

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An elongated strip tease in drag saw bra and panties left strewn across the gallery on the night of the PV. What an exhibition-ist! 

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Polaroid and film are used repetitively due to the voyeuristic connotations and the need to document reoccurring actions within my own private life, for which strangers have unquenchable curiosity. The need to know what's going on behind the curtain. 

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Selected works shown in group exhibition: 

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utopi_a mate //ave a look

strip_bitch (performance)

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Victim of the Arts - 31 January 2019

Thames-side Studios Gallery, Woolwich, London

(group show)

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Public Toilets

2018-2019

This project explored the socio-historical context of public toilets, in a more general sense: the lost queer history of public toilets as a secret space for anonymous sex within the queer community (and the politics that follows this), and in my own personal history and relationship with this specific public/private space. This practice was fuelled by José Esteban Munoz's Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity and my own experience socially and sexually in various public toilets. Performance, digital photography, polaroids, printed ink on paper, porcelain, markers and graphite all feature. 

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Selected piece shown in group exhibition: 

dicks+tits (porcelain variation)

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Victim of the Arts - 31 January 2019

Thames-side Studios Gallery, Woolwich, London

(group exhibition)

Camp Aesthetic

2018

​Stage lights, camera flashes, fake gold and faux fur.

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These digital collages celebrate queer pop culture, self-performativity, artifice, utopia and death. Using photography and appropriated digital material to both reference and imagine art historical, and contemporary, queer icons in a potentially utopian space that I created. The works reflect the study of Camp aesthetic (beginning with Susan Sontag's Notes on Camp but quickly leaving it), Queer Theory and Queer History. Glamour, performance, tragedy and failure are all evident in the furs, pearls, booze, and bandages, and, in my own poor technical skills. The work questions the binary boundaries between high and low culture, both in its subject matter and it's form. 

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These works have been exhibited in both a group show and solo show:

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Spare Blems - 31 May 2018

AVA building, University of East London

(1st year group end-of-year exhibition)

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/Punks&Perverts/ - 7-27 July 2018

Stantonbury Gallery, Milton Keynes

(solo exhibition)