These images are from four recent projects, all chiefly concerned with the idea of using text and walls as a means to provide a public space for intimate sentiments. Taking my cues specifically from pop music, I aim to express some of the more delicate of emotions in a bold and civic-feeling space, much the way a pop singer bellows out the most private of thoughts in a way that turns the small words into anthems.

My recent project, Can’t face another day, written large above the stylised image of a sunrise, is a reminiscence of the cathartic effect a very sad song can often have, and also on the subtle comic effect achieved by flamboyantly melancholy statements.

The earlier piece, I want to like it now; sets an uneasily upbeat statement in context with four images of a young woman going through her everyday life, talking on the phone, riding a bike etc. When the drawings of her mundane activities are examined more closely it becomes clear that she is equipped with fangs, a marker of her fundamental distrust in her own enthusiasm.

No-one notices I’m a Girl, is a larger effort discussing the triangle notion of feminism, romance and credit for a work well done. For this text I chose to employ the signs usually associated with gothic music, a melancholy but romantic genre of post punk. The title of the piece refers to a notion that when women work they are stripped of their femininity. It also touches on the lack of recognition awarded to the women’s work. In this installation the portraits on the wall are all of female members of prominent pop bands, namely Chicks on Speed, The Yeah, yeah, yeahs, Stereolab and Ladytron. This installation is set up in the kitchen of a fashionable home, and as a nod to the role of the kitchen in women’s work I’ve arranged for a dinner table, ominously unoccupied by guests.

Lastly Power and Affection, was a sprawling installation inspired by rock n’roll, and the power of love songs. Here ambiguously erotic images of men and women are paired with simple writing on love, respect and intimacy. Many of these texts are picked from conversations with friends, and one from an old LL Cool J. song. During this project I found the t-shirts were especially entertaining to work with, given their baggage as promotional sites for pop bands and their history as venues for slogans and political messages. A text simultaneously looks more and less important when it is printed on a t-shirt, providing a startling effect when a private and rather delicate statement is placed on there.