'SEVEN SISTERS' 17-19 November 2023 - solo exhibition at Stryx Gallery, Digbeth, Birmingham
'Seven Sisters' was a long-term project that I started after recovering from emergency spinal fusion surgery in December 2015. I had to change so many things about how I lived my life and made my work, and these works are a sort of record of that time, and a homage to the seven women artists whose work inspires me. There is a downloadable PDF of the exhibition text at the end of this page.
Left to right: 'Carcass' 2017-2023 (collaged index cards, assorted personal and medical paperwork, and gold ink, 30 x 20 x 20cm); 'Mutability' 2017 (collage, tissue and gold ink on canvas, 160 x 60cm); ‘Millstone Grit (The Broken Column)’ 2018 (acrylic paint and marker pen on Fabriano paper, 250 x 150cm); 'Red Flag (Tree of Hope Stand Firm)' 2018 (acrylic paint and marker pen on Fabriano paper, 250 x 150cm)
Left to right: 'Carcass' 2017-2023 (collaged index cards, assorted personal and medical paperwork, and gold ink, 30 x 20 x 20cm); 'Mutability' 2017 (collage, tissue and gold ink on canvas, 160 x 60cm); ‘Millstone Grit (The Broken Column)’ 2018 (acrylic paint and marker pen on Fabriano paper, 250 x 150cm); 'Red Flag (Tree of Hope Stand Firm)' 2018 (acrylic paint and marker pen on Fabriano paper, 250 x 150cm)
Left to right: 'Girl Lifting 2023, Girl With A Baby 2023, Girl Tweeting 2019, (Acrylic paint and metallic paste on canvas, 30 x 25 cm each)
‘My Neck, My Back’ 2015-2023 (Smartphone photographs on inkjet photo paper, 21 x 21cm each framed)
Left: ‘Repetition is the Mother of Skill: Repetition is the Skill of Mothers’ 2018 (MP4 file, music by The Double Doctor, duration 20 mins) Right: "I'm not a trained dancer" 2018 (MP4 format video file, music by Peter Mann for angrycandy 2023)