Dr Jenna Fox is a British artist whose PhD research examines alter egos as a space to explore uncomfortable emotions, which led to new creativity. Sculpture is how she represents intangible feelings in a unique way with a clear intention of the process, concept and materials. Her sculptures retain a childlike quality, and their creation is iterative and slow. This process helps form the resolved pieces, which mimic the unpicking of difficult feelings, and encourages conversations about trauma and otherness. Her practice uses multiple colours and materials as a mechanism to relate to how we are framed by our past, traumatic experiences and how this is part of our identity, the context, history, time and perspective. Her work presents a physical, structural presence of the intangible, which vocalises uncomfortable subjects such as abuse, survival and coping mechanisms. The work is informed by academic writing and philosophy (Foucault, Butler, and Freud). It is also informed by her experiences and those of others. It is important to her that the work is relatable and can be ‘understood’, and the viewer can connect to it. Her art practice sits with the exploration of mental health, of otherness and the progression of self. It explores how our past informs our identity and the spaces we can use to create alternative narratives. Her PhD evolved with the work taking an auto-narrative confessional focus.  By using alter egos as a space, it enabled her to tap into alternative identities, alternative outcomes and view
 trauma from alternative viewpoints. 

Alter Egos and Me

Public Art

Sculpture