27 Days | 2020

27 Days was created during the first UK lockdown amidst the 2020 pandemic. After being placed on furlough, losing my commercial work and connection to the outside world, I felt my identity falling away. There was this moment where there was nothing left, and it felt as if it had left my body hollow, before life began anew. Seedlings, small twisting leaves and buds grew from my body, and I was able to revisit self-portraiture at a time of no restriction, despite isolation. My experience of lockdown was like a dream; all I had was time and space to make and create; no limits other than the four walls surrounding me. Flowers became my one tie to the outside world, and it was through their beauty that I rediscovered my own.

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This project is about the identity of a young, female artist in 2020. It works to document an exploration into the female body, the way in which we are seen by ourselves, when isolated from the rest of the world. The self-portraits became ritualistic, addictive, obsessive and intrinsically linked to an unconscious conversation I was having with myself.

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This series was featured on Sky Arts' 2020 RANKIN amongst many other works of amateurs and professionals alike, as we worked to represent our year in imagery. You can purchase a copy of the collective book that followed, here, with profits going to Mental Health UK.