Sex Slavery

 

The Governments of many countries have become alarmed at its scale of human trafficking and are looking to curb it with new legislation. Many propose the so-called Scandinavian Law that simply makes it illegal for someone to pay another human being for Sex. It has already been introduced in Sweden, France and Northern Ireland. A report by the UK’s Home Affairs Select Committee is expected to recommend that the law should be brought in for the rest of the UK  and it could happen very soon.

Will it make any difference to the lives of young women affected?

In 2015, I painted a landscape where I showed a crossroads depicting how difficult life can sometimes be. Just arriving at the crossroads is shown to be fraught with difficulty. Once there sometimes we face terrible dilemmas as to the best way to turn. The safest route is not always the clearest.

For my Degree Show I returned to this difficult topic and I felt I needed to address it directly with the introduction of human figures. My large Crossroads image is 110x110cm painted in oils on board.

I also focus on the women themselves with a portrait, trying to depict their vulnerability. The painting in oil on canvas is A1 size. It is still a work in progress at the time of this blog.