Two colour screen print on found photograph, available unframed.
”I first found her while doing my second degree in Graphics. She was tucked in a box, worn at the edges, creased, and completely overlooked. Maybe because her eyes were closed? But to me, she looked consumed—torn between just getting on with life and quietly battling something deeper inside. I’ve been captivated ever since. Originally, I layered the piece with a phrase my mum used to say: “You’re the clever one, your sister’s the pretty one, and your brother’s the boy.” That’s something that might sit around my head—but not Esther’s. It didn’t feel fair to project that onto her. So I stripped it back. Now, in a halo of silver, all it says is: “Her thoughts are her own.” And that feels right. I think a lot of women will understand that.”
Dimensions: 10 x 13 cm.
About the artist:
I wanted to demonstrate the range of my practice, in my submissions. Some of my work explores quiet, subversive feminism through found images and screen print. Rather than presenting women as aesthetic objects, I imagine their thoughts, humour, resistance, and defiance. My Found Landscape series shifts focus to landscapes, pictures taken to commemorate beautiful moments between the author and their surrounding, layering them with gestural marks and vivid colour, I explore the tension between past and present, memory and reinvention. There's often wit in the work, a refusal to conform to expectation, and a sense of holding space for stories that might otherwise be lost. My paintings, are my most personal work - exploring a part of myself I haven't completely come to terms with.