Artist Statement

Inspired by feminist thinking, specifically gender equality, female friendship, solidarity, vulnerability and spirituality, my practice examines who I am as a modern woman and what it is to be female and being close to nature. The work celebrates the female form expressed using a range of materials and processes such as ceramic sculpture, print making, painting and drawing. Clay vessels and slabs function as the canvas to examine ancient notions of femininity and divinity.

Themes of Irish pagan culture, incorporating the goddess narrative, the celebration of nature, the harmony and belief of humanity as being ‘children of the goddess’, inform the drawing, depicting the natural world but in relation to the contemporary female form. These ideas juxtaposed with representations of an archetypal idealised divine goddess are applied to the ceramic vessels and objects.

At a time when female artists are gaining more recognition, I seek to explore the theme of goddesses and the relationship between women and nature from a feminist perspective continuing the discourse of what it is to be a women in the 21st century.