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life is other people
I have made a collection of 3D figures that explore and question some of the many roles women fulfil throughout our lives. Working with fabric and stitches I have sought to construct life-size figures that retain the vulnerability of the […]
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The Unexamined LIfe is Not Worth Living {Socrates}
Aims Making meaning from nothingness. Making my mark. Making something solid from an idea in my mind. Exploration Enjoyment Communication Introspection Creativity Challenge Achievement Enjoyment Excavation Examining critically cultural and societal influences and expectations on the individual By using my […]
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Tired and empty
Four figures exploring ALL THE WOMEN IN ME ARE TIRED. The first I made as an empty bag, stitched and waxed. The surface gleams quietly in the light, looks a bit like a snake skin that has been sloughed off. […]
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Bitch
In Greek mythology Cerberus is a 3/many headed dog that guards the entrance to the Underworld. It was one of Hercules tasks to remove it. This almost life?size [maybe a bit smaller, than me anyway] figure is constructed from a […]
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OUTSIDER ART
This tape is stitched with road sign warnings, in a triangle? ……repeatedly I have stitched MIND THE GAP and sometimes KEEP YOUR DISTANCE…..some disintegrating into part words. I am feeling the weight of of the end of the degree course […]
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Thoughts on Process 1
Process 1 Waiting is Over Materials Whole piece cotton fabric and 50m linen tape, hand stitched Approx 5’ 2” long. Context and Influences Marlene Dumas Dead eyed figures, corpse enclosed in claustrophobic frame Christ……..sacrifice? futile? Medieval tombs – wives who […]
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Togetherness
Been consolidating some of my work which seems to be positive. I have been concerned about only doing solo figures, [shades of modernism presumably, my go-to influence from youth} I found the power of pieces communicating can deepen and clarify. […]
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Quick look
] Photo’d some of my pieces in isolation [with practical aid] helpful to see them in different space. Binding the corpse with the Faith Wilding tape empowered both pieces. This documentation is all in preparation for my Final exhibition, in […]
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All the Women I Am
I have now made a body of work, which I must consider how I would curate for the Final Show next Spring. Seems a bit early to me, I want to continue making to see where I get to, but […]
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drilling down
I think as well as exploring the metaphorical armour that women might need in a patriarchal society I am beginning to think more deeply into female vulnerability; I don’t want to present a female version of machismo. Is vulnerability a […]
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Questioned
I have had some comments as to whether I, as an atheist anglo saxon, [possibly of viking genes as I have that blood group] should be nailing a muslim veil on a naked female figure. Is this reference to covering […]
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making a mark
I am now in my last part time year of a Fine Arts degree. Last year I wrote the dissertation, for which I got a First! which was such a reward for sweating blood, but also made a mark for […]