I went vegan at the end of 2015, when I discovered the cruelty within the animal agriculture industry through YouTube videos on the subject. I instantly began informing others on what I had learnt but, at that point, didn’t have the means to get involved with public activism — until I moved to London the following year to study. I eventually began going to ‘saves’, marches, protests, and outreach events.
I’ve been passionate about art since a young age and began creating vegan art when I moved to London. After visiting a slaughterhouse for the first time, I knew that I needed to do more for animals and that I had to share the message of animal liberation through my art. It wasn’t enough for me to just talk about what I was seeing, I felt like I needed to spread the message as much as I could through other means. Combining my love for art with my passion for veganism was natural for me.
I create art to spread the vegan message in a way that non-vegans will find accessible. Some of my work, however, depicts the harsher, darker sides of the meat, dairy, and egg industries that are usually hidden from the public eye. My artwork aims to be a voice for the animals that we exploit — a large portion of my work is text-based, which I think enhances someone’s ability to understand and connect with the message.