Good Figures is an exhibition that celebrates the enduring appeal of the female figure depicted by 30 contemporary female artists. 100 years ago Dame Laura Knight was one of the earliest female artists to depict the female nude and then in 1936 the first woman to be elected to the Royal Academy. 100 years on this exhibiton celebrates the freedom and expression of female artists today.
Continuing an impulse that began in the 1960s and 1970s with the Women’s Movement, many artists engage socially-centered themes, including gender and identity formation.
- Do we know which art of today is going to be heralded tomorrow?
- What challenges and reactions and personal statements about identity are being made by the artists shown in Good Figures?
Approximately 100 art works for sale with each artist exhibiting new work previously unseen in London.
April 25th – May 4th, 2015
10:30 am – 5:00 om
The Jerwood Downland Gridshell
Singleton
West Sussex
PO18 0EU
Image: Jane McAdam Freud Knickers, 2013, Copper Tube, Spray Paint, Knickers, H80xW13xD0.5 inches; weigh: 1kg; Value: £4000
Artist Statement:
The installation makes use of underwear alluding to the rungs of a ladder.
Many of my works play on our use of language and in this piece I play on the use of the word Knickers as a defensive rebuttal. To say no, for example, to the idea of woman being refused rights and privileges: Refusal of entry into heaven perhaps? Saying ‘no’ is an under-rated, very important part of the learning process, which we, in our desire to be amenable, tend to overlook.
Ladder symbolises women facilitating men’s journey to God.
http://www.tint-art.com/collections/good-figures
