Biography
Thematically my artwork explores the tension between power and domination, isolation and connection; dynamics of complex family relationships and internal feelings and emotions. I am particularly interested in using the female form and animals as symbols to describe emotional experiences of women in contemporary life. The work investigates the connection and/or disconnection between our conscious and unconscious minds. The drawings are a way of showing the changes of emotion as they move toward either transformation or stagnation.
I work with and interview groups of women and the general public. Instilled within the work are personal, social and emotional histories of their lives. Exploring these ideas using drawing and sculpture in which I describe the indescribable. I use animal’s people, architecture and objects to represent states of minds and feelings.
I keep an emotional and somewhat psychological ‘visual diary’ on a role of fax paper. On it I visually explore through drawing my own feelings as well as those of other people around me including, their body language and the way they interact with their own feelings, this ‘visual diary’ is an important part of my process in finding out how I’m feeling and exploring the feelings of those around me with no expectation on the visual outcome.
