Artist Statement

This isn't a world to grow up in

An estimated 250,000 children are currently used as child soldiers, 40% of which are girls.

Through the theme of War and the issues that surround the use of child soldiers my aim is to tell a narrative about the comparison between two lives. One of the children growing up within a war, conscripted to fight for reasons they do not know or understand and two, of a child (Me) growing up in what could be described as a warzone. Constantly exposed to crime, drugs and violence.



The walls that protected me as a child now become the canvas on which my narrative can be formed, a story pieced together, brick by brick.