Biography

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The boundaries of fantasy and reality play a theatrical part in my practice, they are introduced through characters, scenarios, and foreign worlds that I create to escape in. In a world, and time, where we are separating further from our selves, art without conscious story telling seems futile. As a recent MSc Art Psychotherapy graduate, my practice over the past 2 years has further challenged my perspectives on art- if it isn't created with the intention to inspire, heal, connect, or make people feel anything, then isn't it merely just another vanity? 

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I am interested in experimenting, conceptually and figuratively, with the boundaries and overlaps of fantasy and reality, knowing them as necessary counterparts in creating positive societal and individual change. My work process is a means to contemplate what is commonly accepted in the views of ourselves, society, and what could be different. Jungian psychology, philosophy, identity, politics, performance as art/life, feminism, and exploration of sexuality/eros live as reoccurent white noise in my work that I can not escape from. Through my processes, the viewer is invited into my world, where I hopelessly aim to find truth, question our relationship to the other, and discover the layers of my own authenticity. I do this by unravelling the shadow, examining symbology from dreams and bringing life to the paradoxes inside of me. My dedication is to knowing myself more deeply, believing that the personal is political, and that real change must firstly start from within. In this respect, my artwork is therapeutic, transformational and an embodiment of self portraiture.

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In a constant state of trying to find my own voice, I have been educated through a certain elitist art school context and current age, that is obsessed with image, appearances, and perceiving knowledge as power. I pride myself in the fact that I don't have a particular art style or medium, as I am constantly searching for new meaning, new languages, and new ways to communicate. Creativity dies when you settle- I know this too well. I often contemplate the nihilistic idea that nothing can ever truthfully be communicated through language, as it's something man has created to understand. This creates a problem to me in terms of living- with myself (as a woman), with others and through art works. I am always in battle with the superego, but subsequently, the friction turbulates my curiosity in wanting to explore, create and share. The further I go, the more I realise I'm lost. A walking existential contradiction. A cliche. This is the critical space where my art practice lies.