Bachelor of Visual Arts, 2015

Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide
2015

My work is about love, particularly the romantic kind. I have always been a romantic, adoring tragic love stories such as Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby. However, as time passed I came to realise that the romantic narratives I had grown up with represented an unrealistic view of modern day relationships. My interest in first loves stems from the realisation of this and the way I which we might manifest our tentative ideas of romance in sincere yet futile actions. These might include: practice kissing on a pillow, extensively listing attributes of the perfect partner or fabricating a jumper for a non-existent boyfriend. By materialising these actions through the time consuming and intimate processes of embroidery and crochet, I aim to highlight both the silliness and the contrasting sincerity of these gestures.