VCA Graduate Exhibition
Graduate Certificate of Visual Art final install titled “The great escape”
Artists Statement
My practice currently focuses on creating sculptural characters that serve as prototypes for larger temporary public art pieces. I consider my practice as a creative multiverse, within which hysterical notions of human superiority are reversed and re-assembled anew to create a world of mini beasts. In this world, one might encounter a collection of hybrid insect-crustacean creatures, heavily encrusted with hard spikes, yet constructed from soft textiles. I juxtapose the familiar and endearing with menacing details of disproportionate scale; my creatures’ ambiguous bodies often feature female human faces. As such, my work implies an uncanny familiarity, while also pointing towards more sinister questions of human ownership over all in our environment. I create my own fictional species to reimagine alternative evolutionary processes and to challenge how we might perceive our importance in it.