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.
Saatchi
‘Torn’ from the series was selected to be shown at the Saatchi Galleries exhibition From Selfie to Self Expression