About Me

Dominique Burbidge 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 delves into the abject; the beautiful and the grotesque, the seductive and the destructive, often blurring the lines between myth, memory, and emotional truth.

Her recent body of work, The Man Who Rose, emerged from a deeply 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.

Symbolism plays a central role: thorns become teeth, petals become flesh, and the rose, once a symbol of delicate affection, mutates into something carnivorous and all-consuming.

Through this lens, she reimagines the wounded self not as a passive victim, but as an active, complex force, capable of cruelty, resistance, and reclamation. Dominique creates 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, and perhaps, like her subjects, bloom in the dark.