Two houses combined with textures and paint.
Fine oil paint gently brushed on the surface of the brown envelopes.
14 payslip house is a mixture of material paint and fabric.
Payslip Houses
In this series I have started to develop the payslip houses after a long summer without having any art materials or supplies left.
My boyfriend Jamie who at the time was working as a scaffolder got paid weekly. These payslips started to follow me everywhere within his house. I thought about the underlying issue around them.
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This included being a student and paying uni fees of £9,000 a year.
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I'm among a generation where i'm the best educated but the most unemployed.
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I'm of the generation who has the highest levels of stress and depression.
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I'm financially fragile
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Difficulty securing a job at all
Personally to me I wanted to show something that speaks to MY generation. A generation who are fighting so hard for things that are much out of our reach. A payslip is recognisable to everyone but it's become apparent to me it's who engages with the work and reflects on the now, the work will speak to the most.