All Things Considered
These pieces explore how women can perceive themselves through Western conventions of beauty and bodily norm, so institutionalised as to form social expectations that shape the female body.
They attempted to evoke the way in which women experience their own bodies; bodies that can be full of contradiction, sites of both pleasure and pain. The juxtaposition of montage elements and detailed drawing points to the violence of the work. The pain of these external elements symbolise the constraining mechanisms that women can encounter, which is interspersed with the pleasure of the physical act of drawing itself, incorporating the tactile satisfaction and visceral nature of mark-making as a body emerges on the page.
They attempted to evoke the way in which women experience their own bodies; bodies that can be full of contradiction, sites of both pleasure and pain. The juxtaposition of montage elements and detailed drawing points to the violence of the work. The pain of these external elements symbolise the constraining mechanisms that women can encounter, which is interspersed with the pleasure of the physical act of drawing itself, incorporating the tactile satisfaction and visceral nature of mark-making as a body emerges on the page.
