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My practice embeds a range of media, including sculpture, costume, print and photography, taking an interest in how they coincide and subvert one another. Through the lacing of these materials and their psychologies, I wish to engage with contemporary politics of sex, power and violence with regards to women’s bodies and their safety. Tangible explorations are revealed through processes of casting, which replicate existing objects or forms. These then become new ‘skins’ or bodies which are manipulated into sculptural vessels, embodied in the form of costume or abstract figures which take the form of banners.

Works often adopt a still life lens and take inspiration from its traditional, ripe scenes of nourishment, abundance and human frivolity. My practice is concerned with the underlying darkness and decay in still life and how this antithesis of grandeur and grotesque is mirrored in contemporary feminine contexts. The dynamics of power and story telling within fairy tales and myths are also a prominent area of research. I wish to situate and draw parallels between these historical narratives and the discourses of contemporary society, regarding gender-based violence and on-going pressures placed on women’s bodies. The complexities and paradoxes surrounding these themes are mirrored through my material choices, merging, for example, the visceral nature of latex or glazed ceramic, with the seductive texture of silk, which spills onto the mis-en-scène. Reoccurring symbols, including bulbous bellies, corseted eggs and empty snail shells personify the hatching of new narratives and the decay of old.

INSTAGRAM / EMAIL: scarlettrosep16@icloud.com