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Tag Archives: nonhuman animals
Skin and flesh article in Antennae issue 43
A short artist profile on my work ‘Skin and flesh’ features in Matter Matters: Surfaces, Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, issue no. 43. Here’s some screen shots – the article can be freely downloaded here http://www.antennae.org.uk/
boobscape 2017
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!
boobscape, 2018
boobscape 2017
Documentation: Kerry Leonard
milk, motherhood and mammaries
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
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.
Some coverage of SPOM, The Animal Museum, LA
selvedge: Space@Collins
Don’t Put a Bird on It. The rise and rise of animal-centric art in Australia – Maddi Boyd
Featured in this great article in Art Guide on the rise of animal-centric art in Australia by artist/writer/curator Maddi Boyd – http://artguide.com.au/art-plus/dont-put-bird-rise-rise-animal-centric-art-australia
boobscape /anemones
clusters of boob-anemones below the boobscape [I plan to link the milk strands] – creates a link between my work on dairy cows & horrors of the agricultural industry and other work on the impacts of agricultural waste/run off on the oceans … and of course many other connections and meanderings … [they are meat eating animals, etc … etc…]
Check out this ‘boobscape’ the sea anemone – cribrinospsis olegi: (mine is a little less pretty, a little more bleached out and dried skin!)
Photo credit: Dr. Nadya Sanamyan, Russia: specimens from Kamchatka, NW Pacific
http://actiniaria.com/cribrinopsis_olegi.php
– and this fantastic shot of anemones at low tide Photography: A Davey https://www.flickr.com/…/adavey/3608367639/in/photostream/
Selvedge – boobscape
The new boobscape has finally finished – cast no.1 fairly simply with hanging rings for Selvedge #VAMFF, in March 2017. I will take some better photos when the sun comes out! In this work the boobscape has been laid out on the leather symbol and brings together the slink & boobscape series (slink: a type of luxury leather mostly taken from fetal calves). This boobscape makes the connection between the gendered exploitation of non-human animal bodies and the production of leather materials.
Below: photos just after pulling the cast off the mold. I love the rich colours of the reverse where latex meets plasticine – it would be great if it stayed so lush, the reverse of casts are always fascinating – this one reminds me of the sandstone rock formations around Sydney and fossils. When I laid it out on the table to powder it and pick of bits of non-skin – it felt like I was treating/tanning an animal skin, as the size and scale is like the whole tanned skin of a calf (the leather symbol coming from the simplification of the tanned skin of a large mammal).
