Not Made to Fit
by Fox-Y (Megan Marie Davies and Alana Grant)
This work was created in collaboration with fellow artist Alana Grant, under our collective name Fox-Y. Alana took the photos of me, providing the costumes and location. In this photographic series, I move through a sequence of stillness, unravelling, and submersion. Dressed in white and immersed in nature, I enact a ritual shaped by mourning, madness, and surrender. The dress carries the weight of roles inscribed on women’s bodies, such as bride, patient, sacrifice - while the natural setting becomes a space of both dissolution and refuge.
La Femmes Transfigurérs
Examines the fragmentation of the female body through mythology, media, and spiritual ritual - as both a site of violence and transformation. Referencing ancient and contemporary frameworks, this series reimagines dismemberment as a symbolic process of reassembly, where the feminine self is reclaimed, transfigured, and made whole. Through drawings, paintings, and texts, I explore how women’s identities can emerge from rupture as acts of resistance, renewal, and sacred agency.
The Apple
This series explores female embodiment, spiritual awakening, and the burden of inherited meaning. A faceless nude figure kneels beneath evolving circular forms, evoking sacred geometry or stages of consciousness. The red apple atop her head suggests themes of knowledge, temptation, and pathologized femininity. As her arms slowly rise, she moves from silence to self-possession, transforming archetypal symbols into a quiet act of resistance and reclamation.
The Apple II
Explores the symbolic power of the apple, the serpent, and the female figure. Drawing from myth, theology, and lived experience, these small paintings challenge cultural narratives of shame, temptation, and control placed on women’s bodies. Through visual fragments, bite marks, bare skin, and entangled roots, I reframe the so-called ‘original sin’ as a story of agency, hunger, and reclamation. These works are intimate testimonies to the complexity of womanhood, the cost of knowledge, and the deep, tangled roots of self-worth.
Vagabond Heart
Vagabond Heart explores the psychology of mental breakdown through a solitary female figure who drifts through the suburban fringes. Rejecting identity and material life, she embraces homelessness as a form of resistance, seeking freedom from the cold reality of modern existence. Her journey becomes a metaphor for those living on society’s edge: the displaced, the mentally ill, the unseen. Will she be found? Will she survive? Or will she become another missing person?
Pages
This series explores women’s painful and complex relationship with eating, shaped by cultural pressure, trauma, and self-perception. Inspired by conversations with women close to me, these paintings give voice to the often-dismissed experiences of eating disorders. As Suzie Orbach writes, “Whenever a woman’s spirit has been threatened, she has taken the control of her body as an avenue of self-expression.” These are not medical statements, they are emotional testaments of pain, resilience, and the longing to be seen and understood.
CRAVINGS
It’s about the things that are taken from us when we are deprived of our defences. It’s about the things that are secret and hidden which remain that way until it can no longer stand to be subdued. It’s also about the craving or the travelling one goes through to find what was lost or stolen which when found will make us more ourselves.
