Unheard
personal works
Unheard
2023
Photographic scan, printed on giclée paper (6 x 6")
Limited edition of 6 (unframed)
Connecting objects across generations, I hold my late father’s scalpel which he used for cutting negatives in his photography studio, scanned as a photographic image - a technique he also used in his personal work. The scalpel in my hand repositions the control, or lack of it, I experienced with the birth of my son - my father’s grandchild he will never know - reflecting on the medicalisation of the birth experience and the perceptions and contradictions of ‘natural’ and ‘medical’ birth journeys.
Scanograph exhibited as part of My Body in My Hands and is featured in the exhibition catalogue of the same name by Sam Lucas and Nick Grellier.
Sculpture exhibited at:
Good Grief Festival, Bristol, 2025
Women by Women 3, Centrespace, Bristol, 2026