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Nicola Thornhill
Our body image and our gendered identity are formed through our experience of our own body, but also through interacting within codes of social expectations and representations. Thornhill’s practice explores how a gendered identity is constituted through an interwoven relationship between a subject empirically living within an incarcerated bodily perspective and the socially signified construction of gender. These paintings form a metaphorical cultural/corporeal collision of perceived body images. The underwater body signifies the perspective of corporeal incarceration, while the reflective surface implies the distortion of the exterior gaze, of socially constructed forms of representation.
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