Desiring The Self
Embracing Autonomy & Rethinking The Gaze
Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art Honours 2023
I am a young, queer, multi-disciplinary artist based in Melbourne/Naarm working across mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and video performance. My artistic practice explores how self-reflexive eroticism and sexual exploration through art can be a gesture of feminine empowerment and notes the faculty of bodily decadence.
My work navigates the intricacies of sex, sexuality, identity and pleasure by prescribing a ‘normalising function’ to these notions. By presenting these themes in the realm of art, I bestow them with value and cultural significance.
Inspired by the female form in Western art history, I approach my art from a perspective that challenges and liberates it from the conventional hetro-patriarchal Male Gaze, situating my practice between a Female and Queer Gaze. This allows me to establish a space where autonomy, identity and desirability can thrive without inhibition.
Ultimately my works intention is to exemplify a sense of exploration, comfort and empowerment in feminine sexuality and desire.
Afterglow
Oil paint on canvas, 2023
90 by 180cm
Entangled In The Bed Sheets
Acrylic paint on bed sheets, 2023
A Very Seductive Bubble Bath
Oil paint on canvas, 2023
They Were Just Really Good Friends
Oil paint on canvas, 2023
The Gaze of My Phone
Oil paint on canvas, 2023
Behind Closed Doors
Video performance, 2023
Approx 20 minutes duration





