Sylvie Kettle is a young artist living and working in Northern NSW. Growing up on coastal farmland, the red-soiled Australian landscape forms the energetic grassroots of her work. Moving beyond the physical, this collective environmental energy is compounded by the female form. Forging a deep symbiosis between art & healing, she finds medicine within gestural creation and seeks to transfer this sense of catharsis to the viewer.   I “lost” my virginity at the age of thirty. Riveting news I know.. The narrative of ‘sexual purity’ that I was fed from my fundamentalist religion taught me a very strict paradigm around the notion of sexuality. Although I was travelling the world with my music career I was extremely committed to this narrative - until I realised how unhealthy and destructive it was for me.   Fast forward three years, and Sylvie and I find out that she’s carrying.. this news rocked us on so many levels. Our relationship was 3 months old, Sylvie was in her early twenties, and I was absolutely rattled - riddled with shame and confusion from my religious trauma, and enamoured with coercive judgements from my much loved family.   In the current climate of the world right now, we felt like we needed to share our story of suffering, sovereignty and re-birth. I’m so proud of my woman and the powerful thoughts she shares from the heart. Checkout Sylvies art work -  Follow her on Instagram