Imogen (Imo) Maguire wearing my project Endo-Exo in the photograph Endo-Exo: Extended (air-dry clay, waxed thread, acrylic paint, leather, metal buckles, 2.5mm jack chain).
Spider from the illustrative series Bio-Warfare (black Fabriano paper, graphite pencil, and white pigment pen printed as a 24 x 33 Matte Inkjet).
Insect from the illustrative series Bio-Warfare (black Fabriano paper, graphite pencil, and white pigment pen printed as a 24 x 33 Matte Inkjet).
Centipede from the illustrative series Bio-Warfare (black Fabriano paper, graphite pencil, and white pigment pen printed as a 24 x 33 Matte Inkjet).
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours
Fine Arts
Endo-Exo intends to solidify knowledge around trauma, marginalised identity, and alienation. It focuses on my experience while also acknowledging how these subjects are encountered personally, interpersonally, or transpersonally. As a sculptural response and development to my previous series of illustrations, Bio-Warfare, Endo-Exo expresses itself as a physical piece of armour—designed to protect but also to represent the weight of mental illness, the neurodivergent mask, and our normalised culture of violence. At the same time, Endo-Exo and Bio-Warfare push gothic aesthetics to reference the exoskeletal shell of our co-inhabitants and my adoration for science-fiction and body horror.
