Verity’s practice centres on the erotic female figure and its potential for agency, embedding the body within and beyond domestic space. She investigates how the erotic inhabits environments as the domestic begins to unravel – where the bedroom, the kitchen, the other private interiors no longer behave as expected. These produced sites of containment are reimagined as unstable, porous spaces, where desire seeps through and refuses to remain hidden.

The erotic is at the heart of her practice – sexual, spiritual, instinctive, regenerative. It courses through her bodies and their environments, disrupting the domestic and turning it into a site of sexual and deeply felt, power. Humour and discomfort also collide as the familiar becomes strange, with bodies dissolving into animals, and metamorphosis – echoing ancient Greek myth – blurring the line between human, animal, and space.

A sense of mess is a key element running throughout her work. Paint slips beyond control; grooves are carved into surfaces; forms collapse and reform into sculptural presences. Charcoal is used with an aggressive, physical mark-making that inscribes sexual difference onto the body. Influenced by the raw intensity of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, her use of clashing, explosive colour heightens this sense of excess generating a jarring, almost frenetic energy across the work. Through this, the body is rendered in its desires, awkwardness, and vulnerability. In embracing this, Verity rejects the expectation that femininity should be neat or resolved, instead allowing it to exist in a constant flux.

Out of this chaos, a figure begins to emerge: ‘the Goddess’ – not as an ideal but a universally reclaimed force, a contemporary phoenix. She is imperfect, unresolved, and embodied; a presence that rises as a living icon of female power.

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