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Historically, craft and tradition have played a vital role in establishing the feminine psyche, and it is these motifs that inform the bedrock of my practice. Reinforcing agency by engaging with specific made from scratch materials, such as, genuine gesso. This layered practice, moves sacredly to treat the skin like surface as, and in itslef, a portrait, preceding all else.   

 

Erotic 18th century miniature portraits have been a fundamental inspiration underpinning my painting practice for the last two decades. In particualr the portraits of women and girls, housed within the oppulent walls of The Wallace Collection. Females bound in gilded frames, voiceless and often nameless muses. In dialogue with these portraits I seek to weaponise these privatley intended titilations and twist them into challenging acts of womanhood. Exposing the disfuguring reality of contorting flesh into ill fitting form, in pursuit of ideals. Capturing comical clamities that speak of the irreverant inbetween and unseen.

 

Frontal imagery, pushes up against claustrophobic reflections, a series of decisions, judgements and critiques taking place upon a somewhat sacred ground. Private in its gendered nature. Perfuming the spirit of this work, is a magical aesthetic, in which shifting colour arouses subversive form, enveloped by a sweetly scented plumes. These powdered women shift glamouring with She-Hulk potential, emboldening the painted heroine within, as she daringly freaks the oval.

 

Dr Maria Walsh said of my work at Flowers ‘Artist of the Day’, 2010

“Knight’s work is like a feminine deconstruction of Francis Bacon, it isn’t just painting, it’s installation”.

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Knight graduated with an MA (distinction) fine art from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2021, as well as, being awarded the Eversheds Painting Prize upon the BA (Hons) from Chelsea School of Art and Design in 2005.

Most notably her work was selected for Artist of the Day, at Flowers Central, Cork Street, London, as well as, selected the runner up for the Marmite Prize for Painting 2010. She was selected by Rebecca Wilson for the ‘Burning Bright’ Emerging Artists from Saatchi Online, 2012, Hyatt, London. Recently Knight was selected for The ING Discerning Eye 2020 and Delta Gamma @ Saatchi curated by Zavier Ellis for The Contemporary Art Academy 2022.