| Sally Butcher's art practice is inextricably linked with her theoretical work in Cultural Studies, embracing a more holistic view of the artist as practitioner, researcher and social commentator. |
| Her work questions issues of identity and gendered subjectivity as they are mediated between art, culture and the viewer. She is particularly interested in formations of gender, power and desire in relation to women and often uses appropriated mass media imagery, which can structure our ways of seeing through its contemporary consumption. Her work involves a re-contextualisation of such images, most recently exploring surrealist traits under a postmodern guise, creating a new encounter with elements outside the typical frame of representation, to challenge orthodox understandings and pose new visions within signifying practices. |
| She employs techniques of painting, drawing, and printmaking, at times combined with hand-sewn & collage elements. Inspired by popular imagery in contemporary advertising campaigns and fashion shots, her work often ironically depicts ideological figures of feminine beauty – models of sweet little girls, beautiful brides and pretty princesses - captured in doll-like poses, interspersed with typically effeminate symbols such as flowers, lace and sensuous folds of material, each toying with “feminine” connotations often suggested and manipulated in the original texts, to produce images which themselves are intentionally disturbingly beautiful. |
Transformation
LONDON ART FAIR 2010
New transfer prints shortlisted for 'Print Now' competition,
Bearspace Gallery, London Art Fair 2010
Dirty Pretty Faces
'Dirty Pretty Faces'
Exhibited at Electric Eclectic
The Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham
11-17th February 2008
Rigging
Work on on permanent exhibition and available to buy at art&wine
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'Skin Deep' Postcard
Postcards of a selection of art work now available to buy!
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