Colourblind Jockeys (2025)

Smiths Artwork Spotlight

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This was a recent performance/video piece that explored the ability for the colour blue to redact and elude in a wider context of appearance, age and voyeurism. I looked to subvert the physical rendering of objects, taking them away from a place of viewer certainty. It combined audio-visual storytelling and sculptural performance to respond to the sexualised observation of innocence and the historical viewpoint of colour being a descent into childish femininity.

Aiming to present the colour blue as the ‘non-objectifiable’ colour, I imagine it as the colour of protection; the colour we are blind to.