Don't Make Me Eat You

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Don’t Make Me Eat You explores the monstrous feminine across myth and contemporary culture. Drawing from figures like Medusa, Scylla and Chimera, as well as women in power who have been demonised through similar imagery, the series examines how fears of female autonomy continue to shape our stories.

Gestural marks and precise collage elements collide to reveal women who are fierce, complex, and unapologetically untamed. Instead of villains, these so-called monsters emerge as icons of defiance, resilience, and reclaimed power.

This series reimagines mythological “monstrous” women, like Medusa, Chimera and Charybdis, as figures of untamed strength, rage and vulnerability. Drawing on feminist research and ancient myth, the work challenges how female power has been distorted, feared and weaponised across history.

Created through fluid ink, digital collage and layered mark-making, each piece contains subtle traces of breasts, vulvas and symbolic weaponry, hinting at the way women's bodies have been both fetishised and demonised.

Influenced by thinkers such as Debbie Felton, Sharon Blackie and Mary Beard, the series explores how the monstrous feminine still echoes in today’s policing of women’s anger, wildness and voice.

These aren’t villains, but icons of survival and defiance, reminders that the monster was never in the myth, but in the eye that feared her.