In-Sect derives its inspiration from an art residency at Lake Studios Berlin in 2018, whereby I explored psychological and physical human transformation towards kinship with insects. Cultivations of gender, sexuality …

Weaving by Moonlight is a fado (Portuguese blues) and punk inspired video and lacework installation inspired by the hidden queer lives of Portuguese immigrants and their ancestors (family members and …

Her Abyss is a developing body of work that explores human physical and psychological transformation through movement, light and costume. The following are its early experiments, cultivated during a one-month …

How much of what we think, act like and identify as, is shaped by the words we consume? Which words do we absorb, which ones were imposed on us, and ultimately …

Water Portals is a durational artwork activated by a live dancers’ bodies beneath a veil of artificially generated water ripples. At once nostalgic and futuristic, it hovers between illusion and the …

This businessman emerged from Lake Ontario at Hanlans beach on July 21, 2016, and allowed me to photograph his rebirth. . I was swimming at Hanlans Beach, when he suddenly …

Daily Bread is a series of Anthotypes ~ photos made with plant juice emulsions, which can take weeks to expose under direct sunlight. The photographic series brings to light domestic labourers …

Helping: The Clothing Workshop is a participatory performance artwork with clothing. I ask participants to lend me the clothing they are wearing, so that I can clothe my naked body. As …

Purging is a first-time performance artwork, whereby I indulge in dressing with layers upon layers of clothing until I become physically constricted by the clothes, and emotionally panicked with laboured …

Dressing is an audio-video installation about my perpetual struggle to strip away and demolish a femininity and consumerism that is stringent and potent. I captured myself through second-long automated exposures, …

Laced Cobblestone is a large lace drawing created by squeezing out thin lines made of a flour and water paste. It is performed on my knees for days until the drawing …

Tossing is a series of photographs of myself playing with a hamper full of dirty laundry to create ridiculous performative acts and abstract iconic sculptures with clothing. They are shot with …

Dressing, Pinning, Folding, Spinning and Slipping are cohesive sets of photographic installations deriving from my original explorations with laundry. I photograph myself in various interactions with clothing. Each set explores …

In Text and Tongue, I attempt to dislodge the stronghold of patriarchal language on my psyche and body. Through visual poems, comprised of digitally layered text and corporeal imagery, I …

Leisure and Labour is a collaborative artwork created with my former life partner Johann, for the exhibition POINTS Focal in Sciacca, Italy in 2013. POINTS Focal is a shifting group …

Euphoric Femme is a series of artworks inspired by sex-positive feminism and sacred sexuality. Through a social media platform, the artworks below were created in collaboration with people who identify as …

Rubber Holes and Glue is a series of digital artworks about sexual isolation in a world of surrogate technologies and materials, such as computer and TV screens, plastic dolls, silicone toys and …

Sex Healer is a search for self love amidst a consumer world that professes to fulfill our personal desires and needs through products, services and entertainment. Shame, superficial self worth and …

Man and Woman is a tongue-in-cheek video about the merging and division of a man and woman, Busby Berkeley style. The video is a metaphorical play on assumed binary biological and social …

Consuming Her invites audience members to viscerally experience the first female nudes in mainstream cinema. Visitors are confronted with a ghostly and shimmering video projection of Audrey Munson, the first leading lady …

North American media is like today’s religion.  It creates powerful images for the masses to adore.  It takes an ordinary woman and turns her into a Star – not unlike …

Kodak Catholicism forms part of my restless search for the ultimate iconographic woman – the Virgin Mary. Through Kodak Catholicism, I was hoping to capture “miraculous” imagery with my camera, so I …

Pantomime is a European theatre style, which became popularized by the English for its comedy, social commentary and gender role reversals. In this series I explore how the Catholic society …

Glowing Madonna is an interactive video installation, whereby the viewer’s shadow together with a video projection of a contemporary Virgin Mary, are exposed onto a large photo-luminescent wall panel. This piece …

Maria is a series of twelve animated lenticular photographs that humourously explore female sexual taboo within Catholic culture. These works were inspired by lenticular religious souvenir memorabilia and the artist’s Portuguese …

Portrait of a Young Bullfighter, inspired by the artist’s Portuguese Azorean heritage, is a dark and poetic film installation which investigates male body language within the cult of machismo. The …