Llewellyn Skye | Unruly Grace

Description

“These works are part of my early investigations into the concept of the monstrous feminine, framed by Barbara Creed. I am interested in how myth, archetype, and cultural taboos shape the ways the female body is imagined as unruly, threatening, or excessive and how these images might be re-claimed. I am bringing the figure back into my practice. The figure is my own body, bent, fractured, or dissolving, caught between bloom and decay. I am exploring how the self can stand in as both subject and symbol, an offering, a refusal, a becoming. Through these paintings I trace a spectrum of feminine archetypes, from the fierce goddess to the drowned maiden, asking what it means to hold both power and fragility within the same frame. These works are part of an ongoing inquiry into how the feminine can be seen not only as monstrous, but also as transformative. Currently undertaking my Master of Visual Arts at QCA, Griffith, and debuting with curatorial practice, I am also working towards solo exhibitions with Curatorial+Co. in Sydney and Lennox St. Gallery in
Melbourne in 2026.”