130 wax pastel on paper - 27x37cm

Taking a film title referencing women as its subject, Female Trouble is a survey of the depiction of the archetypal female through the vehicle of modern cinema and its sensational ‘turns of phrase’.

The drawings themselves take visual cues from the distinctly coloured, high-contrast subtitles of the multilingual Australian broadcaster SBS; maintaining a consistent colour scheme across all panels, whilst individual drawings incorporate the hues of each film’s original title design.

The titles ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’, ‘The Devil is a Woman’ and ‘Captive Wild Woman' have one thing in common – they promise to personify the damaged, deranged, and dangerous… woman.

Female Trouble is a project that comprises multiple components. These include 130 wax pastel drawings, 13 motorcycle jackets, studded gloves and embellished helmets and an essay on gender in cinema based on Susan Sontag’s interpretation of Plato's theory of the cave and Roland Barthes semiotic theory of the “myth”.