It's a tough world out there. We're judged until death from the moment we emerge from the womb (do we have enough fingers? Is our head a normal shape? Do we resemble our father enough so as not to arouse suspicion?).

In her 2010 MICF show Five Stars, Halley Metcalfe takes a good hard look at why people constantly feel the need to be validated and reviewed by those around them. Never happy with less than five stars herself, Halley wants to know what would we do if every aspect of our lives already had five star reviews? Would we slack off? Is mediocrity such a bad thing?

Halley explores her own need for validation and where it began, dating back to her early primary school years with her pet rabbit Tchaikovsky, (named in honour of her favourite composer), to the lifelong art of censoring herself in front of the parents for fear of offending.