This series revisits William Golding’s Lord of the Flies through watercolour and paper cutting, exploring the novel’s slide from order into fear and savagery. Soft, bleeding washes of watercolour suggest the island’s heat, beauty and unease, while sharp, hand-cut paper layers bring a sense of fragility and threat, like something precious being torn apart.

Drawing on the book’s darker, almost folkloric elements, the beast, the fire and the fading conch, the work looks at how fear takes shape when it is shared and retold. In keeping with the wider themes of my practice, it asks how stories, rumours and imagined monsters can shape real human behaviour, and how easily the line between civilisation and chaos can be cut through.