‘Indeed no body is more cruelly posed at the intersection of the visible and the invisible, The public and the intimate, than the maternal body’.

My work is mainly based on transitional objects and the maternal figure. A transitional object is a comfort object, such as the soother or the blanket. An item used to provide psychological comfort. We all have an object that brings us good memories or a form of comfort throughout our lives, but some of these objects also bring us a sense of shame that we feel the need to cover-up. This for me was a soother growing up as a child. This is the earliest I can ever remember feeling ashamed and wanting to hide something from the outside world.

My work is made up of mainly photography with some hard and soft sculptures, the hand knitted blanket, and the plaster cast molds.

Through my work I try to portray society’s ‘natural expectations’ of the ‘Ideal’ woman. Cover-up, we control to a certain extent. What we show, what we do, and what we say and tell others. We control how much skin we show, how much we let people into our lives, how much we want them to see or know. When we cover up who we really are, mentally or physically we are changing who we are. We mold ourselves into something or someone else. Someone we think which would be socially excepted, someone ‘perfect’, the ‘Ideal’ woman.