Kemp’s paintings explore alternative narratives around how women’s bodies are portrayed/consumed in Western art history and visual culture, in particular, in response to how women’s bodies are sexualised in the media and how women of colour are often sexualised through a racialized lens that is exoticizing, fetishizing and othering.

Interested in what happens when you repurpose found images and drawing from the hyper idealised scenes/landscapes found in socialist realist work, she weaves together images of women from fashion magazines alongside images of agricultural and natural landscapes to create these imagined worlds and dream-like realities within her paintings which are both familiar, yet also border on the theatrical.