Works in progress: Vulva project

Posted on June 21, 2018 by lynn mowson

Top row left to right: meat flaps, wax, pigment, hoop. hairy hoop latex, hair, hoop. little hoop, latex and hoop. hairy hoop II, latex, hair, hoop. leaky hoop, latex, string, hoop. battle of the cxxt (under my skin), newspaper clippings from 16/17 June 2018, latex

A number of small works made for the vulva project, curated by Rebeka Axon. meat flaps is made from previous fleshlumps. The latex vulvas are made from boobscape udder pieces. battle of the cxxt (under my skin) was made in response to the recent rape and death in Melbourne, and the surrounding debates about women’s freedom of movement, men’s curfews etc. The text was deliberately taken from other headlines from the weekends paper, with only one clipping referencing the actual incident. It is a low tech cut and paste, embedded in a latex skin, as the latex ages and yellows the words will be obscured.

The Vulva Project

Posted on June 15, 2018 by lynn mowson

Contributors: Rebeka Axon, lynn mowson, Rosa Voto Ustrale, Alessandra Barone, Fiona Haasz, Jessica Lovell, Kaitlyn Elsegood

This project brings together a group of woman who have stitched, sculptured, drawn, collected and shared stories of vulvas; stories which are personal, social, humorous, cultural, historical and deeply political.

The initial framework, so to speak, was the embroidery hoop; using any media the artists were to constrain their works to this object. The hoop functions as an homage to the ‘craft’ of feminist art practices, crafty women, sewing circles and female spaces. The hoop served to keep us centred, to circulate our thinking, as we met to laugh, drink, eat and discuss our feminist foremothers, contemporary body art, blogs, sites, words, language and performance.

As these discussions spiraled outwards the hoop has, for some, been discarded as a physical object, however it has remained our collaborative methodology.

Presented by the launching pad, 781 High Street, Thornbury.
Gallery open 30^th June to 22^nd July, Fri, Sat, Sun – 11.00am-4.00pm

Diagrammatic wall sculptures

Posted on May 1, 2018 by lynn mowson

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.

milk, motherhood and mammaries

Posted on November 28, 2017 by lynn mowson

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.

Animal Intersections

Posted on June 21, 2017 by lynn mowson

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I’ll be presenting on the Art Panel at Animal Intersections #AASA2017, The University of Adelaide on Monday 3 July. Also a new installation/iteration of my work boobscape, 2017 will be featured in the exhibition of the same name being held at The Peanut Gallery and Nexus Arts between 4-16 July, Adelaide. More info coming soon.

museum of forgotten objects

Posted on June 20, 2017 by lynn mowson

Imaging a future where no one knows what these objects were for… did we provide them to birds in trouble? were they in museums to demonstrate the type of egg produced by different birds? why the dominance of chickens? did rabbits and lions lay eggs? Utopian dreams