Emerging Series
‘Emerging’, focuses on the issues surrounding mental health, specifically eating disorders. The series explores how seemingly mundane objects and situations can be obstacles from which we emerge on a daily basis.
The work was created as a direct reference to my journey pre/ during treatment for bulimia at the Maudsley hospital and was originally exhibited on site at the Long Gallery.
As my first self-portrait series, Emerging allowed me to see by body objective as form within a composition, in a more self-compassionate light (something that has become increasingly difficult for women living in the mass media culture of today’s society).
The work was created as a direct reference to my journey pre/ during treatment for bulimia at the Maudsley hospital and was originally exhibited on site at the Long Gallery.
As my first self-portrait series, Emerging allowed me to see by body objective as form within a composition, in a more self-compassionate light (something that has become increasingly difficult for women living in the mass media culture of today’s society).
The Lancet Journal of Psychiatry:
In 2018, each month a different image form the Emerging series was featured on the cover of the Lancet Journal of Psychiatry.
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Saatchi
‘Torn’ from the series was selected to be shown at the Saatchi Galleries exhibition From Selfie to Self Expression
