The photographs of fashionable and stylish interiors in magazines, blogs and websites that we aspire to, were the starting point for this work. We aspire to homes like these and yet these photographed interiors have been carefully manipulated and styled and are no more real than the airbrushed models in fashion magazines. Viewing the images as a façade I imagined them hiding common social problems such as addiction, depression or debt. I wanted to subvert these aspirational images in some way, to uncover the veil of respectability and status.

'Thoroughbred' highlights that drug use is far more widespread in our society than is generally acknowledged and that it is being normalised in more affluent sections of society. All the labels used in the work have a double meaning – they appear to be the names of designer paint colours but are in fact slang names for drugs. Even the title is part of this lexicon as it can mean a well-bred person, or a drug dealer who sells pure narcotics.