‘Still Waiting to be Held’ is the outcome of a six-month commissioning project by Outer Spaces which highlights the complexities of hidden mental health challenges in society today, inspired by the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival’s 2024 theme IN/VISIBLE.

Madonna as a Young Mum combines archival photographs of myself as a young mother with traditional religious iconography of Madonna and Child. In these collages, I have replaced my own face with that of the Virgin Mary’s and combined a traditional colour palette found in religious iconography with mark making that could be found in a teenage diary.

An ongoing series of collages on paper which combine traditional Madonna & Child iconography with contemporary found images of mothers.

A series of hand cut and paste collages created during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.