Sculptural installation, acrylic paint skins, glitter, 2025

The Males Are Lonely confronts the entanglement of male loneliness and male violence, and the cultural silence that allows both to persist. Constructed from pink acrylic paint skins, dried pliable surfaces peeled and moulded into guns, cameras, and hearts. These forms are coated in glitter, parodying innocence while echoing control, harm, and hollow intimacy.

The unblinking cameras evoke not just surveillance, but the digital gaze of parasocial relationships, where attention becomes a weapon and boundaries dissolve into coercive control. The depiction of hollow hearts highlights the emotional superficiality that often characterises male friendships.

Draped over a large freestanding plinth like a shroud or domestic textile, the work invokes the quiet, often invisible labor of emotional repair, work disproportionately shouldered by women.

It hangs a final tassel, embroidered in baby blue with the phrase: "Entirely unsubstantiated and strongly denied." This phrase crystallises the polished denial that masks male violence and emotional manipulation. Fragile yet glossy, the piece speaks to urgent, ongoing conversations around masculinity. emotional isolation, and violence.