I have been working with ideas about being trapped and wanting to escape boring domesticity. I began by drawing ballroom dancers, from kitsch shows such as Strictly Come dancing, because I found their falseness grotesque, but I grew to enjoy the sheer exuberance of their shows and costumes. My research led me to musicals of the thirties and forties, Busby Berkeley’s chorus lines and Zeigfield’s Follies. I got hooked on the romance and seeming innocence of these movies. I enjoy working with the contrast between the free, flighty characters form the musicals and the mundane domestic settings. I use birds in my work to suggest freedom or lack of it; the windows are visual escape routes. I hope to make believable, yet outlandish images, light-hearted but with an underlying tension. I plan to suggest a story without telling everything.

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Birds on TV
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