Alice Bulmer

This piece is part of a series of works on the theme ‘Underwater’. Each one is about a different aspect of a woman’s emotions and the feelings she becomes free of, or escapes from, while in this underwater world. There’s a weightlessness that is achieved which allows the emotions not to hang so heavily on us. The title comes from a line in the Kate Bush song ‘Running Up That Hill’, which centres around the imbalance of power, gender and struggle - trying to live in a neurotypical world as an autistic woman and the desire to swap places to allow others to understand our struggles. The figure floats gracefully, peering towards the surface, where she must reach in order to achieve the unattainable.