Description

Pencil and pastel on black paper with gemstone embellishments. A1.

Mary is a self-portrait rooted in lived queer experience. The work draws on layered references, music and identity to reclaimed iconography – without fixing them in place or offering a single reading.

Adornment operates as both expression and armour: a way of being seen while protecting vulnerability. Holding joy and defiance together, Mary asserts queer presence as something active, resilient and unapologetically lived in the now.