I had to do a bit of writing about my work for The Packhorse gallery
My work primarily explores depressions but the aspects I
focus on can apply to many forms of mental illness. My work depicts people in
various everyday situations with nothing out of the ordinary. The only
exception to this is the creature that clings to one figure in each drawing.
The creature represents depression and the personification of it in my art is
the only clue the person is unwell. Other than the creature the person seems
like any other mentally healthy person. This shows how anyone can suffer from
mental illnesses and just because someone seems fine doesn't mean they aren't
in a constant struggle. The creature varies in size throughout my work showing
how depression sometimes affects you just a little, in ways you can deal with
but sometimes it overwhelms you and there is not fighting it. I've used a
variation of ink, pen and negative space throughout my series of work to try
and convey the way depression must affect the person and their perception of
the world at times when it is overwhelming or relatively dormant.
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