My work examines daily negotiations around safety, autonomy, and visibility that shape how women and non-binary people move through the world. Working across painting and soft sculpture, I explore how these pressures inform relationships to space, protection, and permission.

 

In my paintings, figures confront the viewer with unapologetic gestures that are often read as immature, rude, excessive, or aggressive. These smiling figures reveal how quickly confidence is misinterpreted when it comes from bodies that are often denied individual authority. The figures unapologetically assert agency, self-definition, and presence.

 

In contrast, my soft sculptures transform everyday protective objects into oversized, tactile forms. Using fabrics that are feminine, childlike, and often dismissed as decorative, I intentionally soften hard things and enlarge small ones. These materials point to overlooked forms of beauty while revealing the safety routines many people rely on and the conditions that make them necessary.

 

Together, these works hold strength, vulnerability, and humour in tension, insisting on the right to be seen and to take up space without apology.