In her works memories of her childhood are collaged together in figurative painting, referencing the 90s pop culture she had and hand gestures she remembers from her mother growing up. Images sourced from the internet, antique objects and her own surroundings are digitally collaged together in an even further illogical sequence before carefully being distributed onto canvas in layers. Her paintings show a satire on death and focus on the loss of the figure, specifically the maternal role. An exaggerated loss of the figure is cohesive throughout her work, the hands becoming objective and making actions that are separated from the body, either coated in latex or as mannequins or dolls. A false world is portrayed through fluorescent tones of flesh painted on top of cropped whimsical interiors. Her paintings show layers of the mundane such as driving to school, tying hair, food or a piece of furniture. There is a suggestion of the surreal existence and further questions about her own reality in an effort to retrieve what is lost.
Originally born in the UK, Tori Pounds then went on to do her Foundation and Bachelor Degree in Fine Art at Academie Minerva, Groningen , The Netherlands. In her third year of her BFA she went to study on exchange in New York at Hunter College where she broadened her knowledge in the profession of painting. She completed her BFA at the Academy Minerva in Groningen, the Netherlands (2017). After graduating, her work in veterinary hospitals helped shape a conceptual development, making comparisons with the fragility of life found in surgery and her experience growing up around terminal illness. Currently (2022) she works professionally in her studio in Mexico City. She has shown in the art fair at Casa Versailles and is represented by El Cuarto de Maquinas, part of Galeria Hilario Galguera, and JO-HS gallery, all in Mexico City