My work is an uncanny reflection of being a young woman in contemporary culture, where the familiar female ideal is executed in unexpected ways to create an experience of strangeness. I am interested in the different ways the female body is represented and perceived. My work is often about the experiences women encounter in their everyday life, such as being damaged and consumed by media consumption, disregarded, body shamed and objectified or victimized for their bodily form. Having explored many mediums in the past including installation and painting, I have worked predominately in the medium of drawing for the last number of years. Having grown up with a pencil constantly in my hand, in the final years of my Fine Art studies I returned to the traditional materials which affirmed my love of art as a child. In my drawings the allure of contemporary female ideal is ejected to numerous repulsive mutations and distortions. Misplaced body parts, enlarged proportions and layered faces melting into one another combine to form monstrous hybrids; representing the distorted reality of our image obsessed culture. In a society where real bodies and fantasised ideal bodies are radically dissimilar, people create desires and fantasies about their body which are often monstrous themselves. The distortion in these drawings echoes the turmoil young women go through while striving to be happy with their appearance; the layering representing how we constantly alter our image in order to in order to conform to society's ideal standards. Working in pencil allows me to portray the frangibility and vulnerability of the female in an unique way. Drawing on a large scale helps me to project these figures as larger than life.