
Unfolding (her misinterpretations still live beside my gut)
2024, blown glass, timber
Unfolding (her misinterpretations still live beside my gut) explores queer experiences of love, desire, growth and joy, through abstract glass vessels reminiscent of vases, flowers, and germinating seeds. Organic shapes in bubbled glass attempt to capture the movement of the glass in its molten form, and the emotive tension of the glass blowing processes. The work considers the artist's evolving relationship to desire and love, following those experiences feeling inaccessible and uncomfortable during her youth.
Recalling how our past experiences are carried with us and shape our present, Unfolding (her misinterpretations still live beside my gut) utilises the material quality of glass having memory of its previous forms, to comment on how past understandings of ourselves stay with us even when we know they to no longer but true or relevant. The work traces the journey of unlearning and relearning; the multiple vessels speak to a queer coming of age that continues beyond realising one's identity.
New Contemporaries 2024, Sydney College of the Arts, installation photo: Document Photography
New Contemporaries 2024
Unfolding (her misinterpretations still live beside my gut) was exhibited at Sydney College of the Arts, as a part of the New Contemporaries 2024 graduate exhibition. The work was shown alongside another piece Sweetbitter (I didn’t know desire could feel like this). While Unfolding reflects on many stages of growing into oneself, Sweetbitter is a celebration of the joy and complex emotions of the artist’s current experiences.

