Recent research is concerned with how identity is formed and influenced through the human habit of collecting and consumption. Her work examines cross generational collecting and archiving. Through painting and drawing, from life and photographic references, her practice examines how these objects may bear witness to our lives, personal and familial histories and become fragments in forming current and historical identities. Dillon examines the drive to collect often outside the museological or official context, that can be either excessive, banal or frivolous or alternatively advantageous and meaningful.

 

Her work is more recently focused on collecting habits of younger generations and is influenced both by the imagery and the semi-fictional colour palette of the advertising language used by the cosmetic industry and the ‘pinkification’ of product marketing to ever younger generations. The paintings mirror the scale of screens through which these messages are disseminated. Larger works on paper research the broader scope of online beauty influencing and hair routines.