film and installation

Featuring a large-scale digital collage projection, mixed media sculptures, found objects, and layered atmospheric sound. 

The work was inspired by a pareidolic moment, when I saw three feminine figures in the bark of a tree. I imagined them to be spiritual symbols, and started thinking about our propensity to commodify the promise of comfort. I reproduced the figures using cheap, fast production methods and displayed them in a fake shop setting.  

The piece also looks at the cultural elitism that still surrounds decorative art. A mass-produced trinket can mean just as much to someone with limited means as a fine art sculpture can mean to someone wealthy who believes they have perfect taste. This work questions who decides what has value, and why. 

A short film set at a remote derelict cottage. It explores the desire to seek simplicity and solitude, away from urban chaos and how ultimately, the struggle is within. As an installation, the film is projected through salvaged mattress springs.

A comment on the human cost of exponential tech growth, digital addiction and the geopolitics of cobalt mining. Forty double plug sockets, switched on, line a cobalt blue room. All cables lead to a soft-sculpted frame, which holds an acrylic paint and human hair collage. A soft sculpted effigy representing Kobold (the cobalt goblin) is periodically suspended in the corner. 

Soft sculpture effigy representing the Kobold, the cobalt goblin, installed in a lift space.