This Hideous Replica
Lifting its title from a misheard line in a 1980 song by The Fall about a reclusive dog breeder whose 'hideous replica' haunts industrial Manchester, this experimental project—a concoction of artworks, performances, screenings, workshops, a 'replica school' and other uncanny encounters—adopts monstrous replication as a tactic, condition and curatorial framework for exploring algorithmic culture, simultaneously alienating, seductive and out-of-control.
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Lovely Bibbles
Lovely Bibbles explores the embodiment of 'girliness' and new expressions of 'girlhood' in art. Focusing on interweaving painting and sculptural methodologies, this work challenges the dismissal of feminine-like aesthetics.
Ecocide
Concern for how humanity might better understand the challenges presented by climate change and biodiversity loss, this body of work explores how to convey a new understanding of the world and our place within it by stimulating reflection and encouraging fresh discourse through the medium of the worn object.
PDA (Public Display of Affection)
PDA (Public Display of Affection) is an open love letter to the many films, television series’, and characters I have adored throughout my life — Jale Sezai