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Artworks Open : Taryn O'Reilly: "Idle Hands", PVC fabric, satin, felt, latex paint, acrylic nails. Inspired by the Bride of Frankenstein, I wanted to explore this idea of the female identifying body being created or built upon a patriarchal design. In the book by Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein begins to ³build a perfect companion² for his lonely monster. He realises that in order to make her into a true female she would have to be fitted with the ³appropriate² genitalia and reproductive parts. The thought of this frightens and enrages Victor Frankenstein. He tears her apart, limb from limb, and throws her body parts into the ocean never allowing her to come into fruition. In the film, while she was created, animated and visually stunning her stitches, flaws, and imperfections are ever present and emphasized. A reminder that she was still monstrous. This dismemberment emphasizes this innate horror of female sexuality that I had perceived amongst the iconography of death and the macabre. By disassembling her into parts and sexualising and devouring each limb and orifice separately, it strips her of autonomy and undermines her power. This is even more prevalent when speaking of queer and trans bodies. Not all women menstruate or give birth, however these horrors and this idea of monstrosity is projected onto them just the same. Deeming feminity as inherently monstrous or hypersexualised has been a classic way of discrediting female identifying figures and revolutionary movements. My sculptures and installations are meant to explore our conceptions of queerness, sexuality, and femininity through the use of dark humor, macabre and camp aesthetic. Interested in the ideologies of the monstrous feminine, I strive to create a body of work that embraces wicked imagery in order to reappropriate this narrative. If my autonomy and empowerment make me a monster, then a monster I shall be. #barbicanartsgrouptrust #bagt #artist #artstudio #artlovers #artcollector #artinstagram #artoftheday #artista #artwork #traditionalart #art #artworksprojectspace @bagtrust @alexschady @michellewilliamsgamaker @ap_fitzpatrick https://www.instagram.com/p/CNzIZe-lYwV/?igshid=146apnyg2ffpc

Artworks Open - Susan Watt: "A show of strength", oil and oil stick on canvas. @suewatt1 Susan Watt¹s paintings, sculptures and video installations are a visceral representation of her experience as a mother and carer for her beloved son Tom, exploring love, joy, loss, anger, and the strength of will required to help and support a non-verbal child with significant disabilities. Her recent work, created during the pandemic, explores the loneliness and isolation she experienced in lockdown, as well as the practical and emotional impact of the suspension of external support for Tom, of cancelled operations, and a lack of much needed respite, challenges that were personal to Sue and her family, yet common to many others during those difficult months. Striking a balance between abstraction and stylized figuration, Sue expresses her thoughts with frankness and tangible emotion. The influence of her art training in St Ives, and her admiration for the work of Peter Lanyon and John Hoyland are evident in the powerful forms and emotive colour of her paintings, which for all their tensions and sometimes challenging imagery, are a unique record of the unbreakable bond between mother and child. Words by Mercedes Smith, December 2020 Artworks Open was selected by artists Alex Schady and Michelle Williams Gamaker. A.P. Fitzpatrick kindly provided an art materials prize. #barbicanartsgrouptrust #bagt #artist #artstudio #artlovers #artcollector #artinstagram #artoftheday #artista #artwork #traditionalart #art #artworksprojectspace @bagtrust @alexschady @michellewilliamsgamaker @ap_fitzpatrick https://www.instagram.com/p/CNw1JYwFe55/?igshid=knvbl278hr71

ArtWorks Open - Sang-Mi Rha: "I Can See", oil and acrylic on canvas. My practice departs from a long-standing interest in human memory. Havinggrown up across four continents in America, Asia, Europe and Oceania, the paintings capture fragments of my peripatetic experiences through tracing private memories. Transmutative nature of memory provides a setting for reality and imagination to coexist. With the acceptance that memories are malleable constructs that are reconstructed with each recall, the autonomous world of ONeither Nor¹ with its own logic, time and place comes into being. Children wear animal masks made of cardboard boxes. The masks symbolise third culture kids¹ (TCKs) conflicts in identity arising from transitions as citizens of everywhere and nowhere. Through the repeated process of layering and erasing, the paintings come into being, enabling my journey to end for the commencement of the viewers. #barbicanartsgrouptrust #bagt #artist #artstudio #artlovers #artcollector #artinstagram #artoftheday #artista #artwork #traditionalart #art #artworksprojectspace @bagtrust @alexschady @michellewilliamsgamaker @ap_fitzpatrick https://www.instagram.com/p/CNfh_qSlxdo/?igshid=1c9u3azjzuqma

ArtWorks Open - Prizewinner, £1,000 and solo show. Rithika Pandey: "Please don't blame my circular anxiety for this", acrylic and gouache on heavyweight paper @chashmishkahiki My work draws from the personal, mythological and scientific to explore the liminal spaces within contemporary cultural and technological entanglements.   With an interest in the relationships between mental life and lived experiences  through the body as the mediator between thinking and the act of experiencing, my multiform practice is an attempt to articulate the surrealities of displacement, the spatial qualities of dreaming and the unique embodiment of subconscious archetypes & thoughts. Through learning and un-learning, I attempt to fabricate a narrative landscape embedded with symbolic language that can move through our histories and understand the nature of anxieties and longings within a hyper-modern age. #barbicanartsgrouptrust #bagt #artist #artstudio #artlovers #artcollector #artinstagram #artoftheday #artista #artwork #traditionalart #art #artworksprojectspace @bagtrust @alexschady @michellewilliamsgamaker @ap_fitzpatrick https://www.instagram.com/p/CNPmKIKFIY5/?igshid=1e96t3e856t36

ArtWorks Open - Po lam Chan: "FENCE", Clay, plaster, wire & wood. @polamchan Polam was born and lived in Hong Kong and currently based in the UK. Polam¹s artwork often indicates a reflection of society through individuals¹ behaviour. Polam¹s practices investigation of a variety of elements the theme of city. From human interactions/emotions, architecture to social and political issues. Polam primarily focuses on his home city Hong Kong. Boundaries, Propaganda, media manipulation, and barriers that create a blockage to people physically and mentally. These themes are often what he includes in his work. Polam believes art will generate conversations and confront the audience with unusual ideas that one would not easily conceive by living in the system. #barbicanartsgrouptrust #bagt #artist #artstudio #artlovers #artcollector #artinstagram #artoftheday #artista #artwork #traditionalart #art #artworksprojectspace @bagtrust @alexschady @michellewilliamsgamaker @ap_fitzpatrick https://www.instagram.com/p/CNO6VJ4FIi6/?igshid=14yzsjfjoa4yz

ArtWorks Open - Peter Mammes: "Closed Wounds", cold cast metals. I make drawings using a paintbrush instrument. I like to play with line and pattern. I use images of political figures such as Stalin, Lenin, Lord Kitchener to symbolize ideas of masculinity and nationhood. I draw child soldiers as a way of depicting the myths that we are told as children that form the basis of our ideas about what it means to be a citizen, man, person. I gather patterns and ideas from the places I travel and these images represent the different cultures that make up humanity. I combine images into beautiful compositions only using line. I use historical and certain political and cultural imagery as symbols of current political crises and I mean to draw parallels to modern events and dilemmas we face. #barbicanartsgrouptrust #bagt #artist #artstudio #artlovers #artcollector #artinstagram #artoftheday #artista #artwork #traditionalart #art #artworksprojectspace @bagtrust @alexschady @michellewilliamsgamaker @ap_fitzpatrick https://www.instagram.com/p/CNMkr0_FEaZ/?igshid=1rmgz28tom40x