Poppy began her arts career in Illustration and design a decade ago. Since receiving the gift of a double lung transplant she began to favour more abstract and conceptual themes using phototherapy to confront a new transplant recipient identity. "Art gave me a new way to exist in the world, to be present without my body I suppose. At a time when I knew death was not so far away my creative energy became elevated. It enabled me to face my disease as opposed to distracting myself from it. You could say I took the tyrant into my own hands and transformed it into art, that gave me a form of control" Altered states of consciousness and the subjective experience of medical intervention are key themes for Poppy as an artist. "Confessional poetry and phototherapy enabled me to transform destructive emotion into beauty"