Age 16-20

Love lies bleeding

My work started by looking at the flower named ‘love lies bleeding ‘. It lead me into a study of what the plant symbolizes. I have developed ideas using Greek culture which was connected to the plant and Aphrodite.

Hell

‘Hell’ (244cm x 119cm) – Acrylic and Oil Pastel on Recycled Plywood. Hell is a work by COPR* that explores concepts of capitalism, drugs, poverty, modern sexuality, mental illness, and poverty and how these things relate and do not relate by using humour, juxtaposition, relatable symbolism/references, colour, and texture in the Neo-Expressionist style. The work …

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Aja Yoruba

Aja Yoruba is a spirit goddess from mythology of the patron of the forest. She comes from West African culture where she cares for the forest and the animals within it, she also has immaculate healing abilities. I have paired her here with a leopard as leopards spirit animal is the healer of all deep …

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