Katie Brightbrightside

BrightSide uses her passion for fancy dress to reflect her feelings and current personal issues. Her images are loosely based around connections to both pre-existing animation characters and those from her vivid imagination. BrightSide's characters act as reflections and observations of desires, drawn together by the desire to shift, change or indulge.

The concept is derived from how fairytales in particular, have skewed the vision of romance. The work acts as part of a self-reprogramming experiment by selecting several fable characters to identify with. Each character represents good
and naughty, and acts as a pathway for self-discovery, perhaps, without the necessity for that "˜knight in shining armour to unexpectedly show up to the rescue.'