…after Gentileschi, 2024, graphite on paper

This body of work critically engages with the systematic manipulation of art history that has historically excluded women artists from its narrative. Drawing inspiration from Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", this series interrogates the erasure of women artists throughout history. It highlights the ongoing necessity to recover and elevate the legacies of those women who have been denied their rightful place in the cultural canon due to their gender.

In this iteration, the work centres on the heroic female figures depicted by Artemisia Gentileschi—a rare woman artist who, despite the adversities she faced, achieved recognition both in her time and today. Through appropriating and recontextualising Gentileschi's works, including Santa Apollonia (1643), Tarquin and Lucretia (1650), Susanna and the Elders (1610), and Lucretia (1627), this series seeks to bring visibility to the often overlooked contributions of women in art history. It also offers a reflective exploration of the contemporary experience of being a woman artist, questioning what it means to create within a field that has long marginalised female voices.

This work serves as both a homage and a challenge—a call to continue uncovering and celebrating the stories of women artists, past and present, whose genius deserves to be recognised and remembered.

BETWEEN CLARITY, 2024, coloured pencil on paper

You Won’t remember this, 2022, blue biro on paper

"You Won't Remember This" is a series of intimate illustrations that delve into the fleeting nature of our relationship with social media. As an educator, I am aware of how this technology influences our cognitive abilities, particularly our capacity to engage with and retain information in our working memory. This series reflects on the ephemeral quality of the content we consume, and how it shapes our reality.

These blue biro drawings capture moments from the unnoticed backgrounds of popular influencer and advertiser posts. These are unplanned moments that were never intended to stand out and likely to be forgotten by both the content creators and their audience. Yet, they linger in the digital world, accessible to anyone who is curious enough to look.

By isolating and celebrating these overlooked fragments of online life, this series questions what we choose to remember and what we allow to fade away. It invites viewers to consider the hidden stories within the digital noise and the quiet moments that, though seemingly insignificant, are preserved in the archive of the internet.

You Won’t Remember This was a finalist in the 2022 Frankie Good Stuff Awards.