Drawing from contemporary popular imagery and narrative, I am acting as consumer and saboteur, creating seductive images that undermine the daily onslaught of visual clutter and market agendas.  My current work hacks and manipulates existing children’s imagery in order to investigate prescribed notions of glamour, virtue, innocence, and gender. 

These humorous, yet acute studies are originally drawn from an extensive variety of toy rubbing plate sets which portray familiar and influential children’s characters ranging from cartoons heroes like Superman, miscellaneous monsters, aliens, Disney princesses and Barbies, to movie characters like Jurassic Park. These assorted embossed plates act as an instant graphic printmaking tool, allowing me to lift and fuse imagery and produce frottage sketches. These first draft montages are further generated into large-scale oil paintings, the scale of which, reflect the grandeur of advertising while questioning contemporary iconic or banal imagery.

Through play and mischievous exploration, I have found a venue for both amusement and conceptual creation. It is liberating to create new characters that are hybrids of feminine and masculine, animal and artificial, and either situate them within historical allegory of ancient religions, or create my own mythology.