She/Her/They Collective

This body of work started as a FMP project during FAD (Foundation Art and Design), progressing to a collection of lingerie displaying the confusing thoughts and feelings that come with growing out and existing with body hair as a woman. After the project came to an end, I decided to continue growing out my hair. I found myself attatched to it, like it was an actual part of my body rather than just an additional element, and for the first time, wanting other people to see and feel it too. 

After Co-Founding "She/Her/They Collective", an artist exhibitioning group exploring Image, Identity and Form, this project was revived, looking at it from a new perspective nearly a year later. In that time, body hair became an even more pivotal part of how I've formed a new identity - but one that's heavily linked with queerness. My work now is a continuation of the person I was before but through the eyes of someone who's grown in their idenity and realised just how much being queer impacts not only art but their relationship with their body. So I guess I'm queer and hairy?

My body hair was the first thing I pointed out when I met my partner, but it was also the only way they clocked that I was queer. In this weird moment my body hair had become an indication of who I was possibly attracted to and somehow defined the people that found themselves attracted to me.

A continuous theme throughout all of my work, vulnerability has become the most important element of my creative practice. To be truly vulnerable in front of complete strangers has felt uncomfortable at times but these conversations are what generates honest and sensitive pieces of art.

"To My Younger Self" is a short zine exploring themes of nostalgia, loss and movement through collaged pressed flowers and cutout poetry.

On-going collage series exploring how I feel towards my body hair each day - understanding and processing conflicting feelings towards identity, image and gender.

I remember the exact moment I first felt embarrassed about my body hair. I was thirteen and I raised my hand in science class when a girl asked me "Do you not shave your snail trail?", to which I had never felt so ashamed.

During FAD I started to explore ideas of female body hair, looking into collective attitudes, social expectations and the impact of the porn industry on women and their relationships with body hair. This was the first time I had centered a project around an issue that I have experience with - venturing into my own deep-rooted misogyny and analysing...

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