I'm really excited about this work in process. It towers over you at nearly 3.5 metres. It being a composite piece allows me to work small to build BIG!

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Each frame will contain replica oil paintings of breasts from art history mounted in a collection of vintage and antique frames.​

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After breast cancer surgery changed my own body, I became fascinated by the apparently perfect breasts in historical paintings. Here I'll mirror and duplicate them until their symmetry becomes almost absurdly perfect, exposing the distance between the idealised body and the real body that ages, scars, becomes ill and changes. I wanted to exaggerate that distance rather than disguise it. The title Collectors’ Items is deliberately uncomfortable too. These women’s bodies have, in a sense, been collected for centuries — by museums, by art history and by our eyes. I’m collecting the collectors’ version of femininity and putting it back on display.

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Below is a round version this time curated with oval frames.

It measures approximately 2 metres diameter.