We have been closely intertwined in one another's lives for the last four years. We have had a relationship as a couple but now remain as close friends. Whilst together we documented our relationship using art, we photographed and painted each other, and we posed for our individual art projects. This self-examination led on to examining the role of women, feminist art history, debates on the constructs of gender and sexuality, looking directly back at the male gaze. We would talk a lot about social injustices, politics regarding how women are treated in court cases, how we were brought up differently to boys, how we were denied things due to gender, how we are treated as women and how we are treated as lesbians. There are many things we would like to change about our society and we would like to use art as a vehicle for elevating many of our concerns to a more prominent place of discussion.

We have collaborated as RoLan since the Summer of 2005. Our method of working begins with discussion and sketches, we then set up scenes to photograph where one of us will perform as the model, the other will take the role as photographer. We feel a strong affinity with Romanticism in placing emphasis on themes of: beauty, perfect love and friendship, other-worldy transcendence, the truth & validity of one's inner life, the dynamic outsider hero, and romantic death.

The Lesbian Art Debate is a group project that we are establishing to encourage discourse into the definition of lesbian art. We are mutually dissatisfied with the lack of exposure and credit given to lesbian artists in the past. Art history books tend to leave out lesbian art or marginalize and sub-categorize it under women's art, feminist art or homoerotic art; we would like lesbian art to have its own genre. We want to establish a contemporary movement in Britain which recognizes us as having something unique to express – The lesbian experience