Budgies, bikes and families. A Trilogy.

This work initially emerged from lived experience and childhood memories but then, through a series of chance encounters, became an exploration of friendship, conflict, humour and humanity. It looks at relationships, acceptance and trust within a closely self-guarded community, where utopian desires exist in windows decorated with flowers and pride fronting forbidden spaces behind closed doors that hang full of lost innocence and diminishing dreams. Kept within a cycle of deprivation- not necessarily of wealth, but of information and alternative realities- this is an intimate, visceral portrait of people whose lives are caught in oscillation between incarceration and freedom.