Acrylic, gouache, and watercolour pencil on canvas 48 × 60 in | 2025
Waking Up after Fuseliis part of the Feminine Antiquity series.
Drawing upon Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare, this painting replaces the unconscious woman weighed down by an incubus with a luminous, waking figure. Resting heavily upon her chest is a Sheela na gig, invoking the complicated inheritance of female sexuality and fertility, and the expectations historically placed upon women because of them. Swans, botanical forms and light emerge from Fuseli’s darkness.
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Currently held for exhibition. Inquiries welcome.
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