Creating a Safe Space to Play
Oil and Mix Media on Canvas, 40x45 cm. Sold to Private Collection.
This work is exploring queer experiences related to a delayed childhood. Many LGBTQ+ people experience a childhood with strict guidelines on what is acceptable and what is not based on hetero/cis gender roles. In this piece, the artist is allowing themselves to play with their mothers make-up as a way of nurturing their inner child. This sense of play extends to the application of paint as it takes a fauvist approach, contrasting the subtly shifting skin tones. Giving the impression the artist and their younger self were in conversation to create this self portrait.
Exhibited at Kilkenny Arts Festival 2022.
What is Beautiful is Good, and Who is Good will Soon be Beautiful, Charcoal on Fabriano, 30x40cm.
A Gender Dysphoric Delusion
Oil on Canvas, 90x90 cm. Sold to Private Collection.
A self-portrait where their sleep demon is depicted with its head sculpted in bedclothes. This scene documents behavioural developments stemming from stress and anxiety, resulting in bouts of insomnia. Leaving the artist questioning their gender expression and identity in a state of exhaustion.
Selected for Generation 2022: New Irish Painting at the Butler Gallery.
Untitled, Halftone Screen Print on Snowden, 26x37cm. Limited Edition of 10.
Brooks, Oil on Canvas, 60x60 cm. Commissioned Portrait.