Sunday, 15 March 2015

Bang Bang - Animated Short Film by Julien Bisaro

This short animated french film recounts the tale of a frustrated daughter's relationship with her father. After crashing her car and being stranded in the woods the daughter meets a bizarre red wolf and begins to find herself.

Watch the trailer here

This film links to my theme because it shows a wild, feral animal as a reflection of the inner feelings of a female. Furthermore this links to the story of Red Riding Hood but flips the story so the wolf is red.

Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith has explored femininity and feminine contexts in a lot of her work. She has looked at unconventional female figures.

Lilith

Silicone, bronze and glass

33 x 27.5 x 19in

'In medieval Jewish lore, Lilith was Adam’s first wife. When she demanded to be Adam’s equal, she was evicted from the Garden of Eden. Lilith flew away to the demon world, replaced by the more submissive Eve. Smith catches us off guard with Lilith’s pose and placement. Most sculptures receive our gaze passively, but Lilith stares back with piercing brown eyes, ready to pounce.'

Lucy's Daughters

Screen printed cotton figures

'Lucy' is the 3 million year old female skeleton discovered in Ethiopia. This piece refers to the concept that all humans derived from an african woman.

Smith derives inspiration from stories too. Little Red Riding Hood is a figure that appears in many of her works.

Companions

Lithograph

Born

Lithograph

Carrier

Rapture

Bronze

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Personal Confirmatory Study

My chosen theme for my confirmatory project is 'Feral Femininity' in which I want to explore femininity in a way that turns stereotypical assumptions on their heads. It will both reveal the reality of being female as well as extend these realities to their most extreme forms.

I will be investigating many feminist artists as well as artists that explore human/animal connections and stereotypes.

Julia Pott Animation

Creative Review March 2012 issue

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjes in Varoom 25

Marian Bantjes creates a complex, fascinating and often humourous centrespread image for each issue of Varoom, often forming three dimensional works which she photographs prior to publication. For issue 25 she has continued to expand her impressive approach to typography and illustration, making an embroidery on this Varoom issue’s theme of Empathy, called Lost Child.

The embroidery took her two weeks to complete, and the Lost Child piece has many resonances, not least because the material Marian has used is My Little Pony hair.

Link to Varoom Article