Curation and exhbiiton design for a design and illustration exhbition for a large body of work. Find common themes and build an exhibition narrative which captures the style and vaules of the work. Part of the partice and work invites self-reflection and question, consider how this could be incorprated in to the space.

Things That Shape Us

The Things That Shape Us is a radical exploration of self-image and existing in public as a brown, visibly gender non-conforming person in Britain today.

I believe all work carries therapeutic value and this show explores what it means to give this space to my body. With every painting and drawing my intention is to try to make this body feel like home. This show is also an opportunity and invitation for you to do the same with your body. As you make your way around the space, take time to reflect on the questions asked.

The Things That Shape Us showcases a series of self-portraits. In each one I’m trying to find ways to hold space for the realities of my body and its changes beyond my control. With every painting and drawing my intention is to try to make this body feel like home. As you make your way around the space, take time to reflect on the questions asked. The power of using self-portraiture is a means to subvert an often hostile ‘cis-gender gaze’.

This show invites you to share this space of living in my liminal body. Here we can grieve and share anxiety but also celebrate and build community through universal human experience around body image. At its core this work honours and affirms gender non-conformity and the ways in which a body can and does challenge Eurocentricity.