Looking for a Rook’s Caw

In mythology, corvids are creatures that exist between life and death, giving them foresight into the fate of others, harbingers. Their intelligence stirs up a playfulness, so they choose to reveal this knowledge as uncanny messages.
They perch high up, taking notice of us while we take little notice of them. Only in times of uncertainty, when looking for guidance, do we take notice. Hoping that these birds may impart some wisdom upon us, but they already have, we just need to look closer.

Rookeries were once reckoned as places of beauty, a beacon of good fortune, but now we look on with ambivalence. Perhaps in these systems of nests, we may find meaning.

This exhibition is a continuation of the artist’s previously exhibited work, The Invisible Visible,

which centres around her diagnosis of PCOS, a condition that causes the formation of polycystic ovaries.
Her work explores personal narrative connections discovered between rookeries and polycystic ovaries, both of which require specific circumstances to be revealed, and when they are, are found as clusters of dark circles.
The artist’s work is a poetic construction that highlights these connections and explores the moment of revelation.
She discovered that these birds created structures which mirrored the bodily disorder with which she was struggling. Having always held a great fondness for rooks, this moment of revelation deeply resonated with the artist.