My figurative practice explores liminality, performativity and the discomfort surrounding embodiment and sexuality, particularly during adolescence. Each character is disguised in masquerade and costume, their gender ambiguous, shown to be free, law-less and without boundaries. Be-WILD-ered. They quite literally shake, both as an expression of trauma and as a way to find relief. Influenced by ancestry, contemporary dance and folk ritual, I sculpt and paint from a collected archive of Ancient Greek, Roman and Renaissance sculpture, interwoven with invented myth and folk-lore, bringing together heterogeneous elements in order to find an in-between space. With reference to animal hybrids and archetypal imagery The Shakers mirror the transformational nature of fired ceramic, ink and pigment. Using a loose touch, the mediums themselves suggest narratives of metamorphoses and restoration.