Denelle & Tom Ellis/Peanut Factory Studio
Death of the American Dream, 2017 Photograph, Digital c-type print 30 x 42cm A shrine to the death of the American Dream. It is now glaringly obvious that people know America is not great. Donald Trump told us so-- in the form of a catchphrase hat. |
Nina Mankin
Child Brides Print on archival acid free paper Size A4 “Child Brides is about FGM and young child brides. Two best friends, twelve years old, are playing together, dressing up from the contents of a box that two men have left for them. They try on animal heads worn as masks and lingerie. What starts out as an innocent playful game, soon becomes heavily tinged with sexual violence and the end of their childhood. The blade on the ground and dark spots of blood is a crude reference to what would have been their sexual female centre ready to blossom, but has been forever castrated. Their hands, tied to strings, are being pulled by the men we cannot see on either side of each child.” |
Julie Weber
Women, 2017
Set of five postcards
Julie Weber works conceptually and reflexively within the framework of photography. Founded in research and experimentation, Weber’s practice pushes and pulls at conventional methods behind the making of images. For this series, Weber manipulated black and white photographs that she altered by carving text into the print. The originals have been made into postcard reproductions.
Women, 2017
Set of five postcards
Julie Weber works conceptually and reflexively within the framework of photography. Founded in research and experimentation, Weber’s practice pushes and pulls at conventional methods behind the making of images. For this series, Weber manipulated black and white photographs that she altered by carving text into the print. The originals have been made into postcard reproductions.
Rachael Rebus
Eat Cake Like a Boss
Oil on paper
41 x 31cm
Rachael is a visual artist specialising in painting, drawing and collage. Her work focuses on the idea of how the female form is portrayed in contemporary culture focusing on advertising, the media and celebrity culture.
“This painting shows Beyonce in the position if Tina Turner's album cover, Private Dancer. The text, "EAT CAKE LIKE A BOSS," refers to Beyoncé identifying as a modern day feminist but shorty after preceeded to rap along with Jay-Z's lyric "I'm Ike Turner, turn up/Baby know I don't play/Now eat the cake, Anna Mae", a reference to a moment of domestic abuse displayed in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got To Do With It when Ike forced Tina (who was born Anna Mae) to eat cake by shoving it into her face, and proceeded to assault an employee who tried to help her."
Eat Cake Like a Boss
Oil on paper
41 x 31cm
Rachael is a visual artist specialising in painting, drawing and collage. Her work focuses on the idea of how the female form is portrayed in contemporary culture focusing on advertising, the media and celebrity culture.
“This painting shows Beyonce in the position if Tina Turner's album cover, Private Dancer. The text, "EAT CAKE LIKE A BOSS," refers to Beyoncé identifying as a modern day feminist but shorty after preceeded to rap along with Jay-Z's lyric "I'm Ike Turner, turn up/Baby know I don't play/Now eat the cake, Anna Mae", a reference to a moment of domestic abuse displayed in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got To Do With It when Ike forced Tina (who was born Anna Mae) to eat cake by shoving it into her face, and proceeded to assault an employee who tried to help her."
Jay Mistry
Being British Asian - My Three Selves, 2017
Ceramic
“‘Race is embodied, lived and put into motion in everyday encounters’. My three selfs is a 3D autoethnography presenting my direct experience of being and doing British Asian. I did not set out to make an autobiographical piece of work. However, my initial exploration of identity as a mode of ‘enclosure’ brought about flashes of memory, particular incidents, emotions, triggering further feelings and recollections of everyday events, recurring statements and habitual behaviours. These are reflected in the three compositions above and the three sculptures. “
Being British Asian - My Three Selves, 2017
Ceramic
“‘Race is embodied, lived and put into motion in everyday encounters’. My three selfs is a 3D autoethnography presenting my direct experience of being and doing British Asian. I did not set out to make an autobiographical piece of work. However, my initial exploration of identity as a mode of ‘enclosure’ brought about flashes of memory, particular incidents, emotions, triggering further feelings and recollections of everyday events, recurring statements and habitual behaviours. These are reflected in the three compositions above and the three sculptures. “
Khanwal Dhawali
Azadi (Independence)
Khanwal is a male artist from London who is currently working on the theme of violence against women during the massacres that took place during India’s partition in 1947.
Azadi (Independence)
Khanwal is a male artist from London who is currently working on the theme of violence against women during the massacres that took place during India’s partition in 1947.
Rosina Godwin
Women’s Rights - A Woman is Master of Her Womb, 2017
Patchwork, with hand and machine embroidery
25 x 26cm
“The piece ‘Women’s Rights - A Woman is Master of her Womb’, expresses my concern over the recent erosion of women’s reproductive rights in the USA, and globally. The womb, sanctified by religion, has become a political battleground. However, every woman should have the right to make a personal choice over contraception and abortion. The words take inspiration from the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom, which states: ‘we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb’. The piece is made from recycled woollen blankets and features the patchwork design known as Granny’s Garden, due to their familial, homely association.”
Women’s Rights - A Woman is Master of Her Womb, 2017
Patchwork, with hand and machine embroidery
25 x 26cm
“The piece ‘Women’s Rights - A Woman is Master of her Womb’, expresses my concern over the recent erosion of women’s reproductive rights in the USA, and globally. The womb, sanctified by religion, has become a political battleground. However, every woman should have the right to make a personal choice over contraception and abortion. The words take inspiration from the Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom, which states: ‘we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb’. The piece is made from recycled woollen blankets and features the patchwork design known as Granny’s Garden, due to their familial, homely association.”