I want to take a minute to explore in a bit more depth some of the shifts that have been happening in my work over the last few months.
The last major project I feel I developed and saw through to a complete piece of work was my ‘Ego Massage’ sculpture.
Examples of Ego Massage Project Work
In this project I was exploring ideas of elitism in the art world and an aspect of ‘look but don’t touch’ in relation to art. Despite this being a very different subject matter to concepts of feminism, looking back, it was in this project that I really started the process of questioning. It was at this time that I was really getting into the conceptual side of art and discovering new ways of pushing boundaries I didn’t before understand let alone feel capable of attempting to break.
Having started to become aware of new ways of pushing myself and my work I happened upon an exhibition of works by Sarah Lucas at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/about/press/sarah-lucas-situation-absolute-beach-man-rubble/
Au Naturel, 1994, Sarah Lucas (mattress, water bucket, melons, oranges, cucumber, 84x168x145cm)
Available at: http://www.saatchigallery.com/aipe/sarah_lucas.htm
That was it, crusade of feminism has begun. Sarah Lucas is my idol and I will never look at a melon in the same way again!
With a new lust for knowledge of conceptual art and an interest in feminist issues spurred on by a growing confidence in myself both as an artist and a woman, I feel I have started to find some idea of where this new path might have started and the kind of places it might be going.
