Ophelia Unrestricted Sculpture

London born and based artist with an interest in stereotypical gender and societal associations. Studying sculpture at Camberwell College of Art and Sir John Cass in London, encouraged the joining of sculpture and performance. A recently occurring spin off into various creative tangents has enabled a progression of practice into previously unexplored areas. From a sculptural core, the 'typically feminine' psychosocial trait of producing obsessive work is often playfully explored, involving a repetitive and / or arduous process. This repetition works alongside meticulousness and / or a visceral fleshification with bumpy surfaces or clusters, which become an embracement of trypophobia. The recycling and manipulation of everyday household objects such as curtain hooks, plastic wine glasses and metal washers, along with traditional DIY and art materials such as expanding foam, modroc, liquid latex and ink, creates a rebirth of the quotidien... Sculptural objects emerge as bestial, insectile or mollusc creatures. These can either stand alone in their own form or unify, wherein the objects interact with each other to create a collective narrative. The creatures evolve through performative extension by having a photographic documentation of their interaction with space / artist. This creates a series of images of object in juxtaposition to its surroundings. The extension develops further through a sculptural dissection, wherein elements of the object are isolated, collated and digitally manipulated to create a redefinition of the subject. The creatures perform, extend, warp, reformulate, fragment, articulate and multiply.