| Sally Butcher explores contemporary representations of femininity, playing on those mechanisms used in our current image-driven society that can exert pressure on women to conform to a certain cultural ideal. Her work reflects on how women can perceive themselves through Western conventions of beauty and bodily norm which have become institutionalised to form social expectations that shape the female body. |
| Through this she explores the female image and its various depictions within prevailing trends of Western popular culture, drawing on our present obsession with female beauty and its cultural ideal, alluded to by the commodification of female sexuality. |
| Her works employs techniques of painting, drawing, and printmaking, at times interspersed with hand-sewn & collage elements. Her figurative pieces have been particularly inspired by female imagery from glossy magazines as featured in present-day advertising campaigns and fashion industry model shots. They ironically depict ideological figures of feminine beauty – models of sweet little girls, beautiful brides and pretty princesses - captured in doll-like poses, which are then integrated with typically effeminate symbols such as flowers, lace and sensuous folds of material, toying with “feminine” connotations that are often suggested and manipulated in the original texts, to produce images which themselves are intentionally disturbingly beautiful. |
| All Sally Butcher’s images explore a curious fascination with the sensuous pleasures of a culturally desired femininity, producing powerful female figures that play with and fight against the trappings placed upon them. |
'Dirty Pretty Faces'
Dirty Pretty Faces
On show at Electric Eclectic
The Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham
11-17th February 2008
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