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08 Aug

Petals of Protest - 2026

This cheeky mixed-media piece serves as a playful protest against housework, staging a clever optical illusion where a sweet bouquet of pink roses is actually made of tiny rubber cleaning gloves. Set against a wallpaper backdrop in a thrifted vase, the arrangement required meticulous experimentation—and a fair amount of accidentally super-gluing my own fingers together—to […]

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07 Aug

Immortality - 2026

Featuring a lamb being reclaimed by the earth, this painting depicts a full circle where what once was alive is returned to the earth and fuels the living. Using saturated greens and whimsical details alongside depictions of rot, I invite the viewer to consider the intersection between life and death. The allegorical symbol of the […]

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07 Aug

Condolences - 2026

The flowers given when the person they are about is no longer there to receive them.

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07 Aug

Different perspective - 2026

Girl lying on a grassy field viewed from behind her. Look back on the good moments.

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07 Aug

Upcycled Onion Fields - 2026

This platter had a previous life as a slumped sheet of Bullseye Glass and powder. It was The Onion Field – it had been returned to my care after the owner was no longer living. It has been up cycled/cut into 3 x 3 cm squares and refused with additions of coloured stringers. The German/Australian […]

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07 Aug

Shared Ground - 2026

This collaborative sculpture explores the tension between individuality and collective existence, asking what it means to belong within a community while remaining distinct. The clustered ceramics forms create a shared foundation, their bodies intertwined until individual identities blur. Together they suggest a parade, a migration- an organism of many parts. Beneath them, frottage prints made […]

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07 Aug

Anniversary Night - 2026

Sheep celebrate their anniversary in a little boat under a blazing starry sky (champagne chilling for later). Acrylic painting on wood slice.

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07 Aug

Bramble Season - 2026

Happy sheep enjoying a berry themed picnic with a nice cup of hot tea from the thermos. Acrylic painting on wood slice.

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07 Aug

Small F*@K Art - 2026

Pop art style abstract work with the same concept of the disposable cutlery but only with only forks – creating artwork with a simple design aesthetic to make the audience view the object differently

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07 Aug

F*@K Evolution - 2026

Pop art style abstract artwork illustrating the extremely minor evolution in cutlery and for someone the ultimate decider in which piece of cutlery is the correct one to use for which course, and which food. Some will use either a spoon, OR a fork, and sometimes both for one meal. No knife required. You literally […]

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