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Queen Elizabeth Park Community Centre
Rainbow Connection
Rainbow Connection is a series of six vibrant collages that celebrate diversity and inclusivity. Through the use of vivid colours and abstract compositions, each collage weaves together people of different ethnicities with textures and patterns, creating a visual metaphor for the beauty of diversity within our community.
The rainbow scheme used throughout the series not only speaks to the LGBTQ community but also represents the spectrum of human experiences and identities. The series aims to promote understanding and acceptance of all people, regardless of their background, and to celebrate the unique qualities that each individual brings to the community. Through this series I hope to inspire a sense of unity, acceptance, and love.
Cigarette Card Series
Sourced from a 1925 set of cigarette cards, the collectible trade cards tucked into tobacco packaging in the early twentieth century each piece in this series centres an orchid illustration originally printed to educate and entice. Removed from their context, reframed and presented as art objects, the cards carry both the elegance of botanical illustration and the strange nostalgia of mass-produced ephemera. Something meant to be collected, then discarded. Something that survived anyway.
The Botanicals
Each collage in this series pairs a single female figure with a house plant, found imagery brought together to explore domesticity, care, and the quiet authority of growing things. Plants have been a constant in my life since childhood, many of them inherited from my maternal grandmother and still tended today. Here, they are not background or decoration. They press forward, drape over, and intertwine with women photographed by men decades ago, reclaimed, regrown, and very much alive.
Woven Collages
Two images, cut into strips, and woven together by hand. Neither fully visible, neither entirely lost, the resulting piece is something that could not exist as either source alone. These works explore how images interrupt and complete each other, and what meaning lives in the gaps between.
The Divine Feminine
The Divine Feminine is a fun and whimsical series that playfully combines female figures and pin-ups with landscape photography. Each collage is made of just two hand cut pages form vintage sources. Although both nudes and landscapes are traditional genres they are paired in a new way here to create a modern twist on our historical interpretation of each. The series in meant to celebrate woman and their seemingly inherent connection to natures bounty and rhythms.
