A Conflict of Interests

A Conflict of Interests (2016)

neon, programmer and transformers. 113 x 34 x 10cm

Edition of 3.

A conflict of interests is a typographical work whereby the words "Mother" "other" "her" and "Me" flash consecutively and continuously as a visual representation of the identity conflicts women experience in matrescence.

I made the work in response to my own experience as a young single mother navigating the changes within my sense of self as I became a woman, and the struggle to balance my own needs and desires with those of my child. The work aimed to present a maternal subjectivity, reclaiming the objectification of the maternal identity. Neon is a very male-dominated medium and this piece was partly inspired and produced in response to Martin Creed's 'Mothers' (2011) which I felt was another attempt to glorify motherhood from a patriarchal perspective.

Having won the Birth Rights Award in 2018, edition 1 of ‘A Conflict of Interests’ is now housed within the Department of Midwifery, Guy’s Campus King’s College London as part of the public Birth Rites Collection. The Birth Rites Collection is the first and only collection of contemporary art dedicated to the subject of childbirth.