Foreword

After several years of mothering, working, experimenting, thinking, positioning, surviving, tolerating, imagining, comparing, grooming, conceptualising, sighing, building, caring, bruising, bristling, drawing and driving forward, the artist is now ready to show a visually arresting build-up of a body of work, still gathering pace and substance, and sure of what it is. For years the artist has been working away like this - not so much in the background as away from the instant gratification of constant public feedback - and now it seems she is more than ready for the next step. A greater confidence in the work is apparent. Not just in terms of its execution but also in terms of the idea behind the execution. The work is as finely tuned now as anything done by the artist ever before, and it is more than refreshing to see an artist spend time developing a body of work, and not just intoxicated by the world of one-liner ideas executed by others which is so prevalent in the art world today. As mentioned, the artist is preparing for the visit of a gallery. She is feeling calm and unfussy. The concept is as sound as the need for a show is profound. Forward she goes.