Love Works is a series of work exploring the human emotion par excellence, love – as labour, as obligation, as consuming fire, as heavy weight. Recent life events – the loss of a close friend, the birth of a new child, the near implosion of a family unit – have thrown my complicated relationship to love into focus. These works are my attempt to catalogue the ways in which I love and have been loved in turn, and reconcile them with the pure love archetypes presented throughout my upbringing and by society at large.

This work was shown at SEVENTH gallery, Victoria, during September 2019. Photos by Matto Lucas.