The Feminine Urge Exhibition at Our Big Picture, Grimsby.

Series of work: Wash them suds away, 21st Century Housewife, The Laundry Monologues.

Wash Them Suds Away, 2024. 

In these sculptures I wanted to explore my own experiences in being a woman, the everyday scenarios that we face in terms of harassment and societal pressure.

Then contrasting this with the expectation, women have to be a housewife, even now in the 21st Century. 

The sculpture is to empower the way we feel as women in today’s society and how we are washing those stereotypes away. 

21st Century Housewife,2024.

In my practice, I always drawn to feature a hairy leg motif. As I feel it visualises that resistance to body standards. Therefore thinking about The Feminine Urge, I wanted to express the resistance in being a housewife and kicking the stereotype to the ground in using cutlery as hair follicles. 

The Laundry Monologues, 2024.

The Perspex pieces focus on objectification, women have when wearing certain things.

I have used phrases from women’s right protests, inanimate objects that are referred to describe women body parts. 

In developing the Perspex pieces, I wanted to experiment with screen printing to bring detail to the clothing that I’ve made and the body part it’s attached to. 

On the pants piece, I wanted to recreate a piece of work – Have your cake and eat it…,2023. I have zoomed in sections of the sculpture to visualise the uterus on the pants and the cycle of periods. With the text NO UTERUS NO OPINION.