'Locked Up In Our Own Story', shown at PS Artspace in Fremantle, is a deeply personal exhibition exploring the complex and fluid nature of identity. The artists, lifelong friends, who first met in art school at age 17, created a series of large-scale portraits that physically merged their own images and those of their children. The project was rooted in the understanding that identity is not singular but is profoundly shaped by our relationships. To illustrate this concept, Roberts and Fearby blended their own likenesses to form a single, composite portrait. They then repeated this process with their three consecutive children, each artist having three children of similar ages, merging their features to create unified portraits of a shared, conceptual youth.

The exhibition powerfully visualized how the bonds of a deep, enduring friendship can blur the lines between self and other. This act of artistic collaboration became a metaphor for their own relationship, demonstrating how their separate lives and practices have been enriched and intertwined over decades . The resulting portraits were not literal representations of any one person, but rather a compelling visual exploration of shared experience, mutual influence, and the idea that we are all, in part, "locked up" in the stories we build together.