Danielle Orchard’s paintings and works on paper investigate contemporary representations of the female body. Her work depicts women who don’t seem to fully partake in their leisure activities, yet are not posing for any male gaze; instead, they absent-mindedly take on performative gestures that have entered the collective memory through art, fashion and pop culture. Orchard’s work embeds contemporary narratives into the history of figurative painting by playing with formal elements of modernist movements such as cubism, fauvism and German expressionism.