Two colour screen print on found photograph, available unframed.
”This is Maria—named, of course, after the one and only Julie Andrews. I found this photo in Snoopers Paradise Brighton: a woman having a picnic on what’s basically The Downs. And while I was printing it, I had that moment—you know the one. Things swirling around you, people talking nonsense, and you’re just like, “Yeah, whatever. Can I eat my damn sandwich in peace?” Hence: "The hills are alive… with the sound of bullshit". It’s got that same spirit as Marjorie—done with it all, quietly iconic. A tiny A6 screen print in two colours (one of them silver), the text shimmers subtly—barely there until the light hits just right. I love this one. It’s got legs. I’ll be working on a larger version on paper soon.”
Dimensions: 13 x 10 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.