Tales from the Cutting Room Floor

A solo exhibition, as recipient of the MADE Solo Art Prize in 2019. Drawing on the cinematic imagery of 90s romantic comedies and cult classics, her work harnesses aspects of surface detail as a painterly vehicle to grasp the intangible; sifting through the processes of nostalgia to selectively choose and ignore parts of given images, reinvesting them with a different narrative. What resonates within memory, is often a superficial detail, a shard or remnant – jumbled up and presented like a jewel against the raw, capturing emotional currents which form a subtext under daily life. Impersonal and personal all at once, the fragmented pictorial space places an inferred ‘other’ mental space within the fictional.