The latest series of work came about after a long period of examining how women have been featured in art (and later in advertising) and their use as object, sexual or otherwise.  I have taken the genre of still life, historically defined by its absence of the human form, and inserted women into the frames as object. The female forms play with the idea of object as they gaze towards the viewer and away, raising questions as to what exactly creates the objectification, and how much the gaze plays a part. At the same time the series seeks to question and push the boundaries of the still life genre.