The Bold and the Beautiful Award.
DESIRING THE SELF: Embracing Autonomy & Rethinking The Gaze
I am a young, queer, multi-disciplinary artist based in Melbourne/Naarm working across mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and video performance. My artistic practice explores how self-reflexive eroticism and sexual exploration through art can be a gesture of feminine empowerment and notes the faculty of bodily decadence.
My work navigates the intricacies of sex, sexuality, identity and pleasure by prescribing a ‘normalising function’ to these notions. By presenting these themes in the realm of art, I bestow them with value and cultural significance.
Inspired by the female form in Western art history, I approach my art from a perspective that challenges and liberates it from the conventional hetro-patriarchal Male Gaze, situating my practice between a Female and Queer Gaze. This allows me to establish a space where autonomy, identity and desirability can thrive without inhibition.
Ultimately my works intention is to exemplify a sense of exploration, comfort and empowerment in feminine sexuality and desire.
instagram: @trashartstudent
