'years in the making' series (2022 -2023)
Unknowingly growing up neurodiverse was challenging. I struggled with expression, felt outcast, introverted into my imagination, and dreamt. After play, art became my language and therapy, it built confidence and freed me. Struggles of expression in society inspire me to help others.
‘Years in the Making’ recycles ideas conceived during my internship at the Brick Lane Gallery. It took years of sitting with my pain to actualise final compositions and transform them into art. The themes are emotions, self-realisation, spirituality, and trauma processing. My darkest reflections developed these figurative concepts. The subject matter are distorted characters that symbolise psychological states responding to traumas. I am making the intangible tangible, visualising dreams, and other dimensions.
My style amalgamates expressionism, abstraction, fluorescence, figurative art, symbolism, and surrealism. I spontaneously applied mixed media including acrylics, posca pens, toy filling, PVA, brown paper and string to create upcycled collages. Play processes feelings of cultural restriction.
‘Years in the Making’ recycles ideas conceived during my internship at the Brick Lane Gallery. It took years of sitting with my pain to actualise final compositions and transform them into art. The themes are emotions, self-realisation, spirituality, and trauma processing. My darkest reflections developed these figurative concepts. The subject matter are distorted characters that symbolise psychological states responding to traumas. I am making the intangible tangible, visualising dreams, and other dimensions.
My style amalgamates expressionism, abstraction, fluorescence, figurative art, symbolism, and surrealism. I spontaneously applied mixed media including acrylics, posca pens, toy filling, PVA, brown paper and string to create upcycled collages. Play processes feelings of cultural restriction.