Oil, Bikes & Dykes subverts the gender binary through a focus of the artist's own identity and culture. Throughout the work are motifs and symbols that relate to the artist personally- instances of identity that subvert 'traditional' gender norms. By displaying this culture the artist presents an identity (and a figure) that is not restricted to gender stereotype and presumption. Used Motor-oil is a main medium within the work as it holds a firm position within the artist's culture; as a woman- having been brought up around machines of all sorts from a young age.  Motor Oil is seen as a material part of 'low' culture; to be dismissed and overlooked within an art context, but in this work, it holds an aesthetic of its own. Through the use of a traditional style of representation, depicted by an unconventional painting medium such as motor-oil, the artist creates a juxtaposition that can foreshadow the topic of discourse surrounding gender and identity. 

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