I am an interdisciplinary artist with a background in multi-award-winning design and industry-specific teaching. I am currently in the final stages of a practice-led PhD in Fine Art. My research explores techniques associated with Surrealism to consider the visual language of self-representations by contemporary female artists. Underpinned with research into psychology, sociocultural and political history, philosophy, feminisms and gender theory. The research considers the tacit knowledge learnt throughout a gendered upbringing rooted in context, lived experience, practice, values and ideals. The work contemplates visual fragments of becoming through the dualistic lens of the natural and constructed aspects of self.