Paige Reuben is a final-year Fine Art student whose practice explores the constructed and often constraining nature of femininity. Working across painting and sculpture, they combine fabric manipulation and garment making with painterly processes to create tactile, immersive works.

Their work investigates the pressures of self-construction, reflecting on the physical experience of shaping contorting and constructing the body to align with socially imposed ideals. Through processes of material distortion, layering and stretching, their work suggests a tension between control and discomfort.

Positioned between garment, sculpture and painting, Paige’s work rejects wearability and instead holds the body at a distance. In doing so, it shifts focus from how femininity looks, to how its physically structured and imposed. Through the use of sewing, knitting and woven metal, Paige highlights the labour involved in constructing these forms, exposing femineity as not only an aesthetic ideal, but a site of making and remaking.

Instagram: @paigereubenart