PAST PROJECTS
Date 04-0202-0000-9999-9896-9594| 'ALTERED REFLECTIONS', LUTON, 1999 This solo exhibition at the Central Library Gallery formed part of 'Creativity and Consumption', an international conference, exhibition and workshop event investigating 'New Media Arts in Advanced Techonology Culture'. In this exhibition, a series of related works utilised familiar domestic features as mediating and framing devices for digitally manipulated photograpic images, often supplanting the viewer's expected reflection with that of an other. Each depicted subject is thus made available for scrutiny, revealing themselves in a series of unexpected or ambiguous states, in which the viewer might become embroiled or implicated. 
In this work, two full-length mirrors each present a life-size image of the human body, with its gendered attributes undramatically effaced. Playing on the relative concurrence of self- and mirror image, they invite a certain fluctuation in perception, and ultimately call into question our need to construct a gendered identity for ourselves and for our others. |
| 'TOUCHING MATTERS', LONDON, 1998 A group exhibition curated by Françoise Dupré that focussed on the idea and status of the material object in contemporary art practice. The exhibition brought together the work of 12 artists whose practice takes diverse approaches to objects, artefacts and processes, and thier ability to communicate meaning to an audience through physical as well as conceptual, referential and associative properties. 
T he wall of the gallery is punctured by two wardrobe doors which open to reveal a large closet, containing a curious empty garment made from flesh coloured 'Elastoplast™' fabric. Its corset-like construction makes reference to the accourtrements with which the 'desirable' femal figure is re-shaped and re-defined, and itself constructs the fetishised representation of such a body. |