Sharmayne Grace McLean is an artist who dissects the phantasmagoric worlds of pop and subcultures in relation to her experiences of conflict and alienation whilst living within the intersecting margins of Australian society. Her process builds upon and deconstructs these encounters with the allegorical matter of cultural archetypes through their many shifting forms and media. She sets out to reassemble this archetypal matter as sculptural material, conveying their psychological nature into physical depiction of disfigurement, distortion and cartoonification, as well as their other, hardened mutations which grow beyond these states.
