20/3/23

LIKE A CLAY PIGEON

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LIKE A CLAY PIGEON 〰️

Featuring the works of Rhianna Carruthers, Carter Tam, Ruby Leigh , Emilia Brooks and Danni Miles

'Like A Clay Pigeon' was a group of queer artists exploring the spatiality of intimate relationships and vulnerability.

The public were immersed in an interactive experience including performance art, sound scapes, life painting and planting, whilst learning about relationships and boundaries with human and non-human animals.

Within the exhibition, the audience will have the opportunity to donate to the Albert Kennedy Trust, a volunteer-based charity that we are supporting, working to dismantle homelessness and housing issues within the LGBTQ+ community.

'Missing Teeth And Aching Ribs' Self Portrait 22/2/23

Created using oil paint, oil pastels, acrylic and tape.

As a little girl, I had this constant desire to be a 'grownup' and to emulate the women in the matriarchy I grew up with. It's not until now, after growing up with teenage disability and the constant battle of being a woman in a male centred world, that I realise am plagued with the sadness and regret that wished away my childhood and naivety to the cruel ways of the world we live in.

This painting was a result of the mark making I did whilst sock dancing. Watching my dancing back, it was clear there was some childlike wonder and silliness. This really made me consider the passing of time and view my relationship with my body in different periods of my life.

Similar to Paula Rego' s drawing'Swallows and the poisoned apple' wanted my work for the offsite show the process of life and the physical and psychological pain aging can have on women and their femininity. The reference image for this painting was taken 2 years prior, during a flare up of my chronic illness, and I wanted to experiment conveying a sick and fragile teenager with a hypersensitive awareness to the passing of time.

THE DOLLS.

. I was drawn to the criticism of Freud' s 'Femininity, (1933)' which originally considers woman of 50 elderly and dysfunctional in reproductive terms and therefore virtually unrepresentable and sexually invisible.

The role of the doll was something I wanted to incorporate. He believes in generational continuity- the girls only identity is to play her Mother instead of establishing her own ambitions and feelings. This inspired me to create my own dolls, as a representation of my own independent and continual metamorphosis through the years.