Drawing from 80’s perfume adverts, mass produced dreams, comics and pornography, ‘Love Soldiers’ is a journey into a crumbling fantasy world. We follow a female “character”  in a realm of pregnant spaces populated by 80’s male movie icons where the rhetoric of beauty meets with something strange and intoxicating. This is an exploration of images and representations from the maker’s formative years and these primal memories are reconfigured and used to sculpt a personal narrative of impossible longings and desires. 

I see animation as a way to re-invest in representations and impart them with something strange and intoxicating. It enables me to create narratives that weave a kind of personal mythology out of dreams, fantasies and memories. ‘Love Soldiers’ explores images that are born out of excess, and the project is a synthesis of many personal interests, including; erotic comic artists of the 1970s and ’80s, surrealism, perfume segments on home shopping channels, male sex idols of the ’80s, and the work of artist/animator Suzan Pitt.

Encounters Bristol UK 15-20 SEP 2015