Animaladies

Posted on August 16, 2018 by lynn mowson

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.

porous boundaries – mammalian motherhood, biotechnologies and other entanglements

Posted on August 4, 2018 by lynn mowson

Just finished up an article writing about my propositional large scale installation. One day I hope to install it – but it requires a lot of wall and ceiling space.

Abstract: This paper outlines my current sculptural research project in which the lives and deaths of dairy cows are entangled with multiple biotechnologies. My propositional sculptural installation brings together extant works such as fleshlumps, boobscape and slink, and new works, to represent the dairy industry, multi species nurturing, the environmental impacts of animal agriculture and the biotech innovations of in-vitro meat and bio-fabricated leather. These works are linked together by a web of interconnected fluids; urine, milk and blood. In this new work I hope to make the links between the diary industry and these extended concerns visible and visceral.

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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.

boobscape 2017

Posted on December 15, 2017 by lynn mowson

I just got boobscape documented for inclusion in the forthcoming book Animaladies, Bloomsbury Press, 2018. Hopefully one of these ends up on the cover of Animaladies!