DIRTY GODDESS
These works reflect a powerful duality; an embrace of both the sacred and the raw, the divine and the earthly.
Dirty Goddess III , 2025
Acrylic on canvas, 210 x 178 cm
Dirty Goddess V , 2025
Acrylic on canvas, canvas collage, 230 x 178 cm
The word ‘dirty’ takes me back to being a five-year-old, playing on the family farm, joyfully making mud pies and getting filthy dirty. Feeling free.
Dirty Goddess comes from a chapter in the book Women Who Run with the Wolves. These ancient characters were bawdy, improper, funny and loose.
‘Dirty’ also refers to moving beyond the appropriate, constrained feminine inhibitions of generations of repressed women in my family.
Dirty Goddess VII, 2025
Acrylic on canvas, cotton, 208 x 173 cm
Dirty Goddess VIII, 2025
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 97 cm
Dirty Goddess XVIII, 2025
Acrylic on linen on board, 59 x 45 cm