Battlegrounds is a new multi-media installation that looks at where land ownership, management and policy overlaps with the ownership, management and policy around the female body.

My research began with a wide range of documents, articles and books on both of these issues. I have been researching the histories that include political, social and cultural perspectives. Since conceptual practices is such a significant part of my creative process, reading, writing and reflecting always come before I start to work with materials as the materials, and forms they take, are chosen to work with the concepts that are arrived at through the conceptual explorations. Sometimes this is to complement them, sometimes to contrast them but they are always additional modes and means of communication. The culmination of this initial research has led to a great deal of writing including documenting, journaling and poetic expression as well as a range of discussions about where these sets of laws intersect and where they remain apart. At the same time, I have been searching within; challenging my own understandings, beliefs and perspectives of my own body, its place within the landscape and the regulations placed on both.