Zoë is a Bedfordshire based artist in the UK. She studied Fine Art in Nottingham between 2011-2014, and did a taxidermy course with George Jamieson in Edinburgh in 2013. Zoë has many sources of inspiration with a particular love for paintings by Francis Bacon and film work by Jan Svankmajer.
In her paintings she tells personal stories containing themes of aggression and vulnerability, both physical and mental. Surreal symbolism captures the absurd nature of these encounters. The fragile, feral nature of being alive is conflicted with societal containment by taught behaviours, rules and regulations.
Zoë uses the real and artificial in her sculpture to reflect this conflict further; the natural animals, wood, fur and bone interacting with the artificial, manmade form, either from clay, plasticine or resin. They have a comical yet grotesque presence, engaging curiosity and reflecting human emotions.
I am the figures in the paintings and the creatures in the sculptures– I feel a connection to each of them.