Evidence

What remains

Installation piece exhibited in an exhibition based on the torture and rape of Fred and Rose Wests' murders at 25 Cromwell Street, portraying a horrific scene using the mattress, rubber dildo, blood and duct tape.

 

Iron Artist Internship at Franconia Sculpture Park

Great News, I've been offered the opportunity to participate in the Hot Metal Pour at Franconia Sculpture Park as an Iron Artist Intern during the Summer, 2013. The deadline was March 30th and my application was a last minute decision but to be given an internship of this level in America is a fantastic and life changing opportunity. It will have a positive impact on my artistic career and creative development, enabling me to exhibit work internationally and form friendships and contacts with other interns.

Bound and Gagged

These black and white photographs are based upon the torture, rape and murder of Fred and Rose Wests' victims that they bound and gagged for their own satisfaction to carry out sexual abuse. Within them I have taped my entire head using duct tape and straws to help me breathe. The experience was strange and unfamiliar as I had no control of what was happening or of what could go wrong due to the risks. My aim is to further experiment with this concept due to the discomfort and abuse that the victims suffered at the hands of Fred and Rose West.

 

'Bad Girls'

My interest in memory, focusing particularly on loss, enables me to explore sensitive and delicate subjects. Crime and murder have become a focal point within my practice, and I have become particularly interested in and curious about British female serial killers. Within each photograph I transform myself into Myra Hindley, Mary Bell, Rose West, Beverly Allitt and Maxine Carr. The series of photographs involves impersonating these infamous women creating the iconic and well known mug shot after the conviction of their horrific crimes. All of these women have been involved in, or committed, murder which has resulted in them taking the lives of vulnerable children. The element of innocence and youth of the victims can become a visual struggle at times due to the emotional and psychological involvement within the work. I aim to engage and confront the viewer through the challenging nature of the topic, and to subvert the stereotypical representation of femaleness in our society. 




 

Myra

 

 



Mary

 

 



 

Rose

 

 

 

 

 

Beverly

 

 

 

 

Maxine

Myra

Photographs inspired by the mug shot of Myra Hindley during the Moors Murders case. The original image is in black and white but there are a few examples of experimentation using colour inspired by the Marilyn Monroe prints by Andy Warhol.

Mug shot side view

Mug shot front view











 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commission for 'Terry Price' Memorial Garden

Seeking to achieve

·         A fitting memorial to a supremely talented and iconic sportsman who was born and bred in the village and never forgot his roots; and

·         A peaceful area where local people and visitors may come to spend a period of tranquility

The design I have chosen for my Memorial garden is a celebration of Terry Prices’ career and life as a sportsman. My aim is to pay tribute to Price and inspire young people; current and future sports people towards a bright future.

The Sculpture Department in my college was lucky enough to have the opportunity to propose designs and ideas for a memorial garden worth £30,000  for the Welsh rugby legend Terry Price. I was very grateful and honoured to have been awarded the commission. 

 The design I proposed had a very traditional aspect to it and a strong theme of rugby. My aim is to cast a life size figure in Iron and Bronze in relation to Terry Price's height, weight and measurements with an accurate and detailed face using the 3D Printing process. Due to his fantastic rugby skills he was a Welsh dual-code international rugby union, league and American football player in the 1960's and 70's. As he is mostly known for playing for Llanelli, Wales and the British Lions, these logos will play a crucial part in the garden. The next step now is to work closely with the Terry Price Memorial Committee in order to create and bring this design to life.

                                                         

Design for Terry Price Memorial Garden

Close up of centrepiece sculpture 'Terry Price'

EARLY WORKS

What lies beneath

Medium: Cast iron

Date: June 2012

 

This is a site-specific cast iron piece that was placed up at the Grove Colliery, specifically over the grove pit hole. The significance of the hole is crucial to the piece, the footprints of mine provide a sense of my journey as a little girl to an adult. The piece is able to provide the story of my relationship and my attitude towards the Ironworks, resulting in no change from childhood to adult life.

'What lies beneath' laid across Grove Pit

What lies beneath...

On location, Grove Colliery

Under a waterfall at the Grove Colliery

Industrial entrapment

Medium: Clear resin

Size: 20cm

Date: June 2012

These are rusted iron bolts that I found at the Ironworks down in Stepaside that are entrapped in clear resin. The idea is to preserve them and to prevent them from rusting any further.



Rusted iron bolts in a clear resin block

Experimentation with the fluidity of liquid metal in relation to its solid counterpart

Medium: Cast Iron, Wood

Date: May 2012

An experimental series using old cast iron pieces entrapped within newly cast liquid iron to create a contrast in colour, harshness, freedom and movement between liquid and solid metal.



Brake disk trapped in cast iron

Fragmented brake disk trapped in cast iron 

Liquid iron poured over an old cast iron piece

The Feeling

Medium: Cast Iron

Size: 8" x 6"

Date: April 2012

 

This is an experimental piece using found cast iron objects from Kilgetty Ironworks and embedding them into the sand mould resulting in a reaction between solid and the molten iron. This site-specific was placed in the Grove Colliery.

 

The Feeling stands freely in the remains of a building up at the Grove Colliery, Pembrokeshire

'Kilgetty Ironworks' (Stepaside) Project

Medium: Photography

Date: April 2012

These images are of the 19th century Kilgetty Ironworks and 14th century Grove Colliery in Stepaside down in Pembrokeshire. As a little girl I grew up in Pembrokeshire and would take regular walks down in the old ironworks with my grandparents. The place has always been a happy childhood memory of mine. The remains of the buildings are in tact and hold a strong heritage for the area.  Over the last few months my work has been based on the Iron Works and also the Grove Colliery. My interest in identity and memory has led me to develop a fascination with this particular location. I feel a connection with the area and believe that there is a large amount of history to be researched and found. My aim is to run an Iron Pour in the old Casting House/Shed in celebration of the place which will result in sculptural work that will be placed and left on location. This is an on going project that I am currently working on but I hope that my vision will come to life.

Engine Blast House

Casting House

Grove Pit

Grove Pit, close up

Myself dropping an object down Grove Pit

Grove Colliery

Myfanwy

Medium: Steel, Copper and Sheep's wool

Size: 5.4" tall 

Date: June 2011

This piece is a steel frame made from my own measurements and height with a copper, weaved shawl and hand knitted pieces. The piece is based on the National Welsh costume and the woollen mills and explores my own identity, concentrating on the idea of 'loss' and 'memory'. 



Full view

Close up of shawl

Floor view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqhJSdCeLjg