Aritst Statement



Through my acknowledgement that lipstick is a medium used to draw attention to the mouth and, therefore,
being a strong signifier of erotic consumption, I have chosen to use lipstick as my main medium.
My subject matter is, essentially, a vehicle for conveying a strongly defined atmosphere, 
an atmosphere of bizarre and deviant beauty: characters with horses heads presiding over sexual scenes, women adorned with feather boas and jewellery;
conjuring up images of 19th century decadence, seedy figures lost in vice, 
where the erotic and the unsavory cohabit a stylized world with a sense of the hyper-real: a city and its corruption. 

I am interested in how sex and its associated acts can be described through artistic processes to be placed within a creative setting, 
so as to (as a preliminary focus) challenge existing ideas of the interaction of sex and art and the co-existance of the erotic and unsavory. 
I also want to tackle the question 'how do notions of 19th century Boudoir manifest themselves today?'