Recently, I’ve started to explore gender and identity in some of my work. For ‘Nips’ (below), I wanted to look at what it means to be masculine in today’s society and the limitations of living up to the ‘macho’ stereotype, particularly the stereotypical assumption that men wearing pink is somehow automatically an indication of homosexuality.…
For ‘The Marriage’ (below), I wanted to explore what marriage really means in the 21st century. Is it even relevant and important for today’s generation? I really like using visually pleasing backdrops for my work, I tend to lean more towards holographic or iridescent materials as multiple colours are produced when light hits the surface.…
The prospect of losing my virginity made me feel physically sick with nerves. What if I did something wrong? What if I wasn’t ‘satisfactory?’ What if my boyfriend actually wasn’t sexually attracted to me at all? This nervousness was rooted in the fact that I didn’t have a boyfriend until I was nineteen. All of…
I produced this first piece, “Topless,” as a response to the pressure that I felt put under to send a topless photograph of myself to a boy at the age of fourteen. I felt that this would be an appropriate first post given the coverage that underage ‘sexting’ has had in the British media in…
