Within my art practice I work across handmade costumes, performance video, and soft sculpture installation to explore the heightened and often awkward experiences which shape identity. Drawing from personal narratives steeped in high emotion and grotesque physicality, I reimagine vulnerabilities and desires which surround the body, sexuality and relationships and translate them through the lens of fantasy and play. The carnivalesque strategies of humour, masking, and exaggeration guide this discussion to promote an alternative exploration of the bodily sphere grounded in colour, materiality and embodied experience. Through this rolling dialogue between the performative body and the intimacy of the handmade, I aim to evoke fantasy spaces that provide avenues for storytelling, interaction, and transgression
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