‘Peeping Jane’ centres around notions of intimacy and female sexuality through abstracted iconography and hidden images, exploring the symbolic nature and function of ‘skin’. The work thus seeks to materially and metaphorically represent the skins layers and transparency, as well as the notion of the surface and what is hidden and embedded beneath.

The work further utilises found materials associated with the domestic, silk, wallpaper, lace, towelling, materials which are indicative of private spaces and moments between individuals hidden from the public. The heavy use of embroidery and stitching as well as overtly feminine aesthetics and fabrics, further alludes to notions of women’s work and the domestic, while also retaining dominant imagery and indelicate aspects.

Moreover, the works are centred around the theme of voyeurism as the audience is encouraged to interact and navigate the work, uncovering explicit images for themselves and deciphering the abstracted and obscured figures presented to them. Thus, the work seeks to capture the binary and tensions between public and private space, what is overt and hidden, transparent and opaque, through humorous sexual innuendos and imagery.