Fairy’s, frogs and big angry floating babies seeks to make the unseen seen by embodying a space of ontological naturalism in figurative painting. Interested in how cultural narratives have framed women as otherworldly monsters, these new works abstract the symbol of a mother and child into psyche. Dismantling this ironically soft image with fairies, frogs and big angry floating babies, the artist undoes internal fairy-tale programming and opens new lines of transit for making she/her identifying ghosts see-able in a 3D language.

Jedda-Daisy Culley’s practice spans across painting, drawing, textiles, video and sculpture. Each medium, in its own capacity, tells a story of the inner tension and transformation of its maker — of her urge to hide but ultimate unwillingness to do so. Her practice explores the darker side of the female experience with a focus on feminist ideas of sex, expectation, motherhood, birth and objectification. Interested in how cultural narratives have framed women as otherworldly monsters, Culley dismantles complex and misleading female (she/her) gender archetypes.