Monstrous World (2022)

Monstrous World is an installation that invites the audience to physically step into a personal experience of anxiety. This world is dangerous and full of monsters. The monsters are domestic, and the monsters are sometimes the self. Even so, monsters can be beautiful, whimsical and humorous. Using photography, textile art, sculpture and light to create an environment to be explored, this work challenges the isolation and silence of mental health through a reinterpretation of the monstrous.

This work was shown at the VCA Graduation Show for the Graduate Certificate of Visual Art, November 2024.

Found objects, embroidery floss on aida fabric, nails, fabric, inkjet prints, collaged paper, acrylic paint, LED lights, anodised wire, brass fittings.

Image credit: Christo Crocker

Image credit: Christo Crocker

Image credit: Aaron Claringbold