22 April – 30 May 2026

A Series of Completely Accurate Self Portraits

A Series of Completely Accurate Self Portraits starts from an interest in fantasy as a way of making things more bearable. The figures in these works are not direct portraits, but closer to what appears when a moment is remembered or replayed – adjusted, stylised, slightly improved. They are me, but not exactly me. They could just as easily be you. That slippage feels important. The fiction is deliberate. It offers a version of events that is often more interesting, and easier to sit with, than whatever actually happened. Coping through aesthetic.

Painted on velvet and framed with faux fur, rhinestones, and patterned surfaces, the works lean into glamour and excess without trying to stabilise the image. The scenes feel familiar but don’t fully land. Things are pushed a bit too far, or not explained enough.

Nothing here is trying to resolve into something accurate in a literal sense. Instead, the works hold onto a version that has been edited, embellished, and kept at a slight distance, something constructed, but not entirely separate either.

Heroines

Acrylic on velvet, Faux diamond on Faux fur

2040 x 1160 mm

My 20 Minutes of Rest and Relaxation

Acrylic, Rhinestone on velvet

1640 x 1120 mm

2026

She Slept Her Way Straight to the Middle!

Acrylic on velvet, Rhinestone on sequin

1200 x 1940 mm

2026

My Heart (& My Legs) Are Open to All of You

Acrylic on velvet

1610 x 1110 mm

2026

I’m Proud of Your Mum Too

Acrylic on crush velvet

925 x 615 mm

2026

On the Wings of a Rhinestone Dove

Acrylic, Rhinestone on velvet

485 x 1065 mm

2026