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To Skirt

To Skirt (detail)

Medium: Sculpture (wall hung)

Materials: Painting support, felt, silk ribbon, silk thread.

To Skirt investigates feminine process through the use and manipulation of materials that reference the body and the Domestic. Strategies are employed to transgress the boundaries of category, the work is neither painting or straightforward embroidery. The openings in each work and suggestion of function, invite physical investigation, making them more akin to sculpture. The reference to domestic stitching, suggests fragile, tactical almost covert support.

To skirt

To skirt (detail)

Medium: Sculpture (wall hung)

Materials: painting support, dyed sheeting, silk thread.

To skirt

To Skirt (detail)

Medium: Sculpture (wall hung)

Materials: painting support, dyed sheeting, silk thread.

To Skirt (detail)

To Effloresce

To Effloresce (detail.

To Effloresce.

To effloresce (detail)

To Effloresce.

Title: To Effloresse.

Medium: Sculpture/Assemblage.

Materials: Found tree part, silk thread, clay, paint.

The strange efflorescence of many hand chrocheted flowers, in the cracks of a tree trunk, alude to a quiet and tactical growth process. The seemingly benign process denies the force with which the piece was made, every "flower" was rammed into the natural fissures of the tree with a chisel, and yet seem to be bursting out.

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To Propitiate.

Title: To Propitiate.

Medium: Sculpture.

Materials: Found tree part, torn strips of sheeting, PVA glue, car spray paint.

Inspiration for this piece came from the Clootie trees, in ancient Britain there was a superstition that if a cloth (cloot) was wiped on a diseased or afflicted body part and tied to a tree then the tree would take on the suffering of its owner and his ailment would be cured. In To Propitiate the same “offering up” of cloths is subverted by being made upside down, this intervention results in an organic, plant like structure, although there are clear references to the abject in the cut off “limbs” of the tree, bandage pattern and repetition of knots, all alluding to a feminine history of washing, wiping, caring and even tearing up sheets for bandages.

To Objectify

Title: To Objectify

Medium: Sculpture/Assemblage/Installation.

Materials: Vintage found objects, brass lady bells, ink well, ceramic Laydee teapots and table brushes, a toilet roll cover.

To Objectify

Title: To Objectify (detail)

Medium: Sculpture/Assemblage/Installation.

Materials: Vintage found objects, brass lady bells, ink well, ceramic Laydee teapots and table brushes, a toilet roll cover.

To Objectify.

Title: To Objectify

Medium: Sculpture/Assemblage/Installation.

Materials: Vintage found objects, brass lady bells, ink well, ceramic Laydee teapots and table brushes, a toilet roll cover.

Description:

Continuing exploration of the feminine, drawing attention to cultural and literal objectification of women through their representation as functional objects. Inpiration came from the new ways of display brought about by Ebay.The objects are all quietly domestic and sit passively under the radar. The contemporary and ironic classification of such objects as kistch, allows their harmless cultural processing whilst denying their more disturbing aspects. Viewed retrospectively as a collective, takes them out of their present context, and and highlights the insidious nature and process of objectification.

To Augment 4 (detail)

To Augment 4

Date: 2011

Materials: taxidermy; parrot, rooster, marabou and pheasant feathers, lamp stand, paint.

Part of an installation based on the verb: To Augment relating to the largely feminine practices of hair and nail extention and the use of prosthetics to enlarge and augment the female body, in line with cultural ideals and expectations. Inspiration for these pieces came initially from the notion of women using parts of other women, for exmple, hair, to enhance their own feminine appearance.

To Augment (detail)

To Augment 3 (detail)

To Augment 3

Date: 2011

Materials: taxidermy; parrot, marabou, pheasant, and rooster feathers, lamp stand, paint.

Dimensions: H34 x w13 x D22cms.

To Augment (detail)

To Augment

Date: 2011,

Materials: taxidermy; pheasant, parrot, marabou and duck feathers, doll's false eyelashes, lamp stand, silk, padding, paint.

To Augment 2 (detail)

To Augment 2

Date: 2011

Materials: taxidermy; peacock, rooster, duck, marabou and pheasant feathers, lamp stand, silk, padding, paint.

To Cover 2

Detail

To Cover 2

Detail: back view.

To Cover 2

Date 2011

Dimensions: H64 x W17 x D25cms.

Materials: Log, kid leather, pink silk thread.

Based on an exploration of the verb: To cover [ˈkʌvə]

vb (mainly tr)

1. to place or spread something over so as to protect or conceal

2. to provide with a covering; clothe

3. (Clothing & Fashion) to put a garment, esp a hat, on (the body or head)

4. to extend over or lie thickly on the surface of; spread snow covered the fields

: 2011

To Cover

Detail: stitching.

To Cover

Date: 2011

Side view.

Dimensions: H47 x W41 x D33cms.

To Cover

Date: 2011

Materials: Log, kid leather, pink silk thread.

Based on an exploration of the verb: To cover.

cover [ˈkʌvə]

vb (mainly tr)

1. to place or spread something over so as to protect or conceal

2. to provide with a covering; clothe

3. (Clothing & Fashion) to put a garment, esp a hat, on (the body or head)

4. to extend over or lie thickly on the surface of; spread snow covered the fields

To Nurture (detail)

To Nurture

Date: 2011

Materials: Log, wool.

Dimensions: H59 x W33x D30cms.

Based on an exploration of the verb: To Nurture.

nurture [ˈnɜːtʃə]

1. the act or process of promoting the development, etc., of a child

2. something that nourishes

3. Biology the environmental factors that partly determine the structure of an organism

1. to feed or support

2. to educate or train

To Nurture 2 (detail)

To Nurture 2 (left view)

Date: 2011

Materials: Log, Arran wool.

Dimensions: H60cms x W27cms x D34cms

nurture [ˈnɜːtʃə]

1. the act or process of promoting the development, etc., of a child

2. something that nourishes

3. Biology the environmental factors that partly determine the structure of an organism

1. to feed or support

2. to educate or train

To Nurture 2 (right view)

Date: 2011

Dimensions: H60 x W27 x D34cms.

Materials: Log, Arran wool.

nurture [ˈnɜːtʃə]

1. the act or process of promoting the development, etc., of a child

2. something that nourishes

3. Biology the environmental factors that partly determine the structure of an organism

1. to feed or support

2. to educate or train

To Nurture 3

Detail: button.

To Nurture 3

Back view.

To Nurture 3

Date: 2011

Materials: Log, wool.

Dimensions: H94 x W42 x D30cms.

Based on an exploration of the verb: To Nurture.

nurture [ˈnɜːtʃə]

1. the act or process of promoting the development, etc., of a child

2. something that nourishes

3. Biology the environmental factors that partly determine the structure of an organism

1. to feed or support

2. to educate or train