Eva Yates is motivated by a deep desire to communicate ideas and emotions informed by the current mental health crisis. She delves into the contemporary phenomenon of haemophobia and the paradox of enduring reverence for blood within religious contexts. Yates’ fascination with ‘abjection’ manifests in her work through depictions of bodily fluids, marginalised individuals and the corpse. She explores tropes and representations of the horror genre, particularly the Monstrous-Feminine, through her disturbing figures. While world religions have sought to purify the abject, Yates deploys frameworks of religious iconography to lift the abject to a totemic status, offering beauty within the seemly grotesque.
Eva Yates is currently completing her MA Painting course at the Royal College of Art. In 2019 Yates received The David S. Boger Patron Scholarship for her studies at the Grand Central Atelier. She has been in WhyNow publication, FAD magazine and LeeCultured.
