Celeste Mountjoy is a Melbourne based artist, who has become a voice for a generation of women that, she says, are no longer prepared to smile politely at the outrages, uncertainties, and absurdities of life on the path to adulthood.
Celeste uses her art to share her observations on being young, female and occasionally seriously f**ked off.
She started sharing her illustrations on Instagram at the age of 14 and now, almost a decade later her Instagram FilthyRatBag has garnered a huge following. Celeste has also released a book of illustrations called What The F**k Is This, featuring over 100 previously unreleased drawings and comics.
She joins me today for an intimate conversation about using her illustrations to share her story about being a young girl navigating through mental illness, substance abuse, love, grief and time with artwork.
00:00 Introduction
03:30 The value of art
05:37 Her childhood
07:02 Adolescence
18:16 Early online prescence
20:36 Creativity
23:57 Writing about difficult things
30:25 Exploitation of girls and young women
37:07 Fetishisation of young women in social media
43:59 Addiction