But Is It Ethical?
My new body of work is centred around mental illness, specifically the illnesses of people I know. In order to create the work I am attempting to interpret what my friends are telling me about their lives and living with a mental illness, then transcribing this into a visual, narrative representative. The images I am creating (and will create) would not exist without my friends talking to me about their experiences, therefore we are collaborating. The very definition of the w
In A Nutshell
It's fair to say the last week has been a challenge! Between the shoot for the next series, setting up an exhibition, kids, work and the Aesthetica Symposium, I am in serious need of a rest. During the last one to one with my supervisor, it was suggested I look at creating a series instead of single images to depict the particular illness I'm examining, given the volume of work I've been producing. For a while this idea threw me, I'd spent so long fixating on the concept of o