Nativity, oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm, 2025

This work explores the playful and humorous recesses present within the pandemonious experience of being a sexually expressive woman in contemporary Western society. I toy with the obscured point of normality between the fantasization and the suppression women experience in the sex industry. With this midpoint being habitually erased by the two extremes, this work gestures to the customary aspects of the human experience that occur in that middle space.

Society often strips sex workers of their multidimensionality by reducing their identities to simplistic, misogynistic archetypes. As a result, the complex realities of personal agency and identity are overshadowed by a singular focus on a woman’s sexual roles. This process of dehumanization, exacerbated by gross misrepresentations, depicts sex workers as either abused failures or human shaped, one-dimensional accessories at the mercy of our patriarchal system. By highlighting life’s humorous and innocent ‘banalities’, like sharing a birthday cake with friends, invites perceptions that emphasize a healthy partnership between sexual agency, personal integrity and truthful representation for sexually expressive women.

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