reclaim project
exploring identity by conveying aspects of rupture and repair
Illbeing
Illbeing challenges the widespread obsession with ‘wellbeing’ as an essential life component available to all. The work honours the silent and painful reality of many living with physical or mental pain.
Huge dragon fruit inside the female body is a take on dismissing women’s health issues and women not being believed or taken seriously.
Materials: Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
Size: 61 x 76 cm
Bullshit of womanhood
The work is a contemplation on anatomy versus autonomy and conveys personal experience of pain, chronic condition and medical misogyny. Brown paper speaks to the disposable and unremarkable, nature of women’s health issues. Resembling ovarian cysts, the exotic dragon fruit speak to the scarce research on women’s health.
Materials: Charcoal on cardboard
Size: 84 x 118 cm
Reclaim
By layering an abstracted version of a local landscape with female shapes, this work portrays the duality of the female body as both private and shared space. The womb and pelvic area overlaid with a woodland path represent the loss of body autonomy through childbirth and motherhood.
Materials: Charcoal on paper
Size: 59 x 84 cm
