More Than... Series

More than… is a 2026 series of figurative oil works examining the interplay between social, cultural and religious constructs of femininity and the lived realities of contemporary Australian women. Through large portraiture and the repeated motifs of miniature representations, the series explores motherhood, wifedom, migration and cultural identity, and chronic illness as sites where the tension between idealised femininity and embodied experience plays out. The accompanying still lifes explore cultural and religious narrative symbols of the feminine (such as the forbidden fruit), and echoing the material motifs present in the portraits.