I don’t want to be nice anymore

Tracy Satchwill's artwork delves into women's experiences and emotions by immersing herself in their worlds. Through role-playing and costumes, she channels their desires, frustrations, sadness, resentments, and rage, drawing on her own childhood as an outsider in a controlled environment. 

These portraits are acts of shedding and reconstruction, revealing the masks worn for survival and unleashing our inner monsters. Her work is absurd, playful, challenging, and melancholy, reflecting our base instincts, survival strategies, and ability to embody conflicting emotions and contradictory behaviours simultaneously.