Betty Bee archives her life as part of her art practice with letters and poems from former lovers, photographs and keepsakes meticulously gathered and preserved in her personal ‘museum, an open ongoing collection. Her work also draws from memories of an unhappy childhood, the cruelty and neglect of her father combined with sexual abuse by her brother. This forced her to leave home and live on the streets of Naples as a teenager. She mixes fantasies and desires with images of innocence, sexuality and voyeurism. Betty’s artistic resource is herself and her tragic/comic narrative is told using both traditional and non-traditional media – paintings both figurative and text-based, photographs, videoworks, performances and installations.