Tale of the Thorn
In The Tale of the Thorn, love is a ritual of grief and hunger. The rose, no longer tender, becomes a site of danger and decay. Intimacy turns cannibalistic in a Gothic landscape shaped by myth, trauma, memory, and transformation.
Dominique Burbidge
Photography 2025
Dominique is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the visceral intersections of love, trauma, and identity through a distinctly gothic, feminist lens. Working primarily in photography, installation, and poetic narrative, her work explores the abject; where beauty and grotesque, seduction and destruction intertwine. blurring myth, memory, and emotional truth.
Her recent body of work, The Tale of the Thorn, emerged from a personal exploration of love in the aftermath of sexual assault. Using motifs such as cannibalism, and ritual, she constructs haunting visual allegories that examine the devouring nature of intimacy and the cost of vulnerability.
Reimagining the wounded self not as a passive victim, but as an active, complex force, capable of cruelty, resistance, and reclamation. Creating unsettling narratives designed to challenge the viewer’s assumptions about love, power, and purity. Her work exists in the liminal space between beauty and decay, inviting the audience to examine their own shadows.
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