Biography
My current project is an illustration and unashamed unpacking of the effects, for adult survivors, of childhood sexual and physical abuse. The creation of the body of work serves as a ritualistic breaking down and working through of the personal observations of the artist, as an adult, addressing the needs of a child self: Through depiction without shame or guilt of abuse through representation of the psychological effects as well as the physical, and the self inflicted, as well as through the recording of a final ritual, a placation and shedding of the child victim, representing the abuse (caused by the survivor) upon a totemic representation of the child self. By inhabiting all players – victim, voyeur, and abuser – the figurative works exist to shift and question the roles of power, victimisation and control.
