Artist Statement

Drawing is the core of my art practice; naked freedom in dialogue with line. Art for me is an act of resistance against the intellect dominating the feeling body. Feeling is part of my process as it wells up and becomes marks on a page in an act of vulnerability and exploration of dark, difficult, beautiful and raw experience.

My creative practice extends beyond the intimate act of drawing to intersect with the digital life of the photograph; the lens pointed at me as the subject. I am aware of the refracted gaze of the technology. I become engaged in a cyclical play of reflection, response and unconscious mark making, a delicate balance between the digital and the raw human. The imagery is reworked over and over, exploring and acknowledging the self in a constant state flux.

Discomfort is essential in remaining vulnerable, my own body and my own gaze both confront and hide from the viewer to reclaim female sexuality, transgression of sexual taboos, the horror of birth and the ambivalence of motherhood; the damaged post-childbearing body that I live. Every time I make a work I surrender to the wisdom of the feeling body creating beauty out of trauma.