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I am a recent graduate from University of Cumbria (formally Cumbria Institute of the Arts), achieving 1st Degree with Honours in Fine Art, about to enter the world of independent artistry.

A bittersweet life.
A one-way journey.
Are you travelling comfortably?

Miniature model-making and drawing provide a stage for the exploration of mortal existence, where the fine-line separating birth and death highlights our vulnerable condition as human beings. Miniature vehicles (pushchairs, double-buggies, prams, wheelchairs) emphasise the uncomfortable reality that is the brevity of life; before long, the vehicle that drives one from birth to youth is replaced by the vehicle that drives the unfortunately disabled to their inevitable death.

This intimate juxtaposition of birth and mortality resides in miniature cots, cradles and incubators. Nostalgia and the longing for what has past, which in itself implies our inexorable journey towards the grave, contaminates these sentimental objects to question the morality of our lived experience.

To be seduced by these unique miniatures is to enter a diminutive world where annihilation rubs all around; just like looking in the mirror.

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