‘This body of work is an active celebration of resilience, rebellion, and revolution, grappling with ideas of 'Britishness', acting as a reclamation of identity and power. Mischievous monkeys add elements of humour whilst simultaneously challenging the very 'fabric' of British societal constructs and patriotism, playing on the idea of using humour as a coping mechanism, but more significantly, the installation acts as a 'Trojan horse'. a portal that interrogates concepts around the self-proclaimed ‘discovery and glory’ Eurocentric telling of colonial history
These works are warriors of my own creation, residing in my psyche and ego, growing in scale, fierce, dominant, and full of rage, wearing masks of ancestral faces as I reveal my internal war and battle, creating multidimensional versions of self, a chamber of guardians from the past, present, and future’