Eilidh Telfer 

My practice explores feminist themes surrounding the female body, identity, and self-representation. Through painting and mixed media, I investigate the relationship between vulnerability, visibility, and acceptance, often drawing from personal experience to engage with wider social conversations about femininity and body image. My work has developed through an increasingly expressive and process-led approach, using bold colour, gestural mark-making, and repetition to challenge ideals of perfection and traditional representations of women in art. Influenced by feminist artists and theory, I aim to create work that celebrates the complexity of womanhood while encouraging reflection on the ways female bodies are viewed, judged, and experienced. 

Exhibition Statement 

This body of work explores femininity, vulnerability, and self-acceptance through expressive representations of the female form. The series of oil pastel studies use bold colour, simplified line, and rapid mark-making to capture the diversity and fluidity of the body, embracing imperfection and spontaneity through a strict timed process. Displayed collectively, the studies form a larger visual conversation surrounding repetition, variation, and identity. Alongside these works, the large-scale oil self-portrait marks a personal shift towards visibility and confidence within my practice. Through exaggerated colour, scale, and gesture, the work challenges idealised representations of women and celebrates the body as a site of individuality and experience. I dedicate this and all my work to my late Granny Jo. 

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