Female experiences of sexuality, subjectivity and identity and the complex relationships between them are central concerns within my art practice.

Large-scale, performative and technically imperfect, my photographs frequently feature the taboo; I combine elements of my own body with food, plastic novelty items and offal and maintain a particular interest in the literal re-enactment of bodily idioms, metaphors and expressions. My work explores deep cultural anxieties about the role of the body and the futility of language as means to express physical experience.  I relate strongly to the work of feminist and psychoanalytical theorists including Helene Cixous, Elizabeth Grosz, Julia Kristeva and Ruth Salvaggio.

Humour plays an important role in my work. From clumsy ‘toilet humour’ to the more brutal, political laughter of the carnivalesque; the humour throughout my practice is precise, considered and layered. It is both a conduit that prevents the collapse of meaning and the precursor to it. I am influenced by the work of artists such as Eleanor Antin, Cindy Sherman, Hayley Newman and Sarah Lucas; from the visual puns of Olaf Breuning to the juxtaposition of the grotesque with the sublime in the photography of Witkin.