OUTSET EXHIBIITON 

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Collaborating alongside 20 other artists in Middlesbrough's finest Venue Base Camp Boro. 

MacHirst featured her work 'Self Portrait series' in the basement, enabling viewers to study her work from different perspectives as well as getting up close and personal with her work.

 

The corridor was pitch black, lit with red spot lights for atmospheric purposes. Viewers were encouraged to touch the paintings alongside a plaque reading-

 

 

Dragging you down into the basement, Fiery MacHirst presents her self portraits series.

The series capture a series of emotions surrounding the negative connotations of her own self image she firmly believes social media has caused by altering reality as a society.

“The paintings speak for themselves, they are the words of inner negative feelings I cannot begin to comprehend myself. I use a mirror for reference and paint my reflection- I don’t paint the physical side of me, I paint the damage social media has done to me as a person. Social media isn’t real nor is it promoting natural beauty, I can’t hide behind filters, a false lifestyle, a false sense of security, I’m presented wit myself in the most beautiful form however the feelings of disgust, anger, pain and self-hatred completely drown me. I still don’t paint these feelings, I paint the frustration of dealing wit these negative feelings, I paint the anger social media has done to me, blurring the lines between real life and the online world.”

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