Category Archives: Series: boobscapes

Animaladies

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book cover full

Really love the design of this full cover – with boobscape wrapping around the spine.  I’m very excited for this book to be launched at Animaladies II, University of Wollongong, in December 2018, where I’ll also be an invited speaker – talking about my propositional new artwork: ‘porous boundaries: mammalian motherhood, biotechnologies and other entanglements’ which will be published in the Animal Studies Journal later in the year (hopefully).    This book features an amazing line up of writings by scholars, artists, creative writers etc.  See: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/animaladies-9781501342165/  for the table of contents.

 

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Diagrammatic wall sculptures

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fleshlump (wearable rosary) in Selvedge, March 2017 at Space@Collins

My new work is focusing on the relationships between the dairy industry (boobscape), the collection of ‘co-products’ such as foetal-bovine serum, placental tissues, slink leather from foetal bodies (slink), the demand of these foetal tissue and blood products in cellular technology in particular in-vitro meat and bio-fabricated leather.  Using my pre-existing sculptures, and new forms, I will trace the connections between these industries, as well as continue my focus on the broader environmental impact of the dairy industry, in particular the leaching of excess nutrients into the waterways/water table.

Work in progress – The Vulva Project

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Just started work on re-purposing some existing sculptures.  Using the skins from boobscape – inverting breasts and teats, to create some small wall sculptures for the Vulva Project, curated by artist Rebeka Axon.  It’s an interesting process, and very much a homage to those feminist precursors – it’s been almost 30 years since I first started teaching visual art / art history – and I remember the difficulties (pre-internet) of finding and incorporating the ‘cunt art’ of the 1970s such as the amazing Hannah Wilke’s – S.O.S. – Starification Object Series. 1974-82, and of course Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party.

Using the skins from these works, for me, brings the material meanings of slink and boobscape into this work, and further entangles those maternal material bodies.

The Vulva Project, 2018

Cover image: animaladies

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Delighted that this image of my sculptural installation boobscape (2016-18) has been selected for the front cover of the forthcoming (Dec 18) book animaladies, Bloomsbury Press, 2018.  I also have an essay featured in the collection ‘making and unmaking mammalian bodies’.

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milk, motherhood and mammaries

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Unpacking the works from the SPOM exhibition, which arrived back this week.  The pieces are flattened, but will drop out with a bit of hanging on the studio wall.  Added in some of the new milk pods, just because … why not.