A solo exhibition, Fragmented Images, at the Wallace Collection, London in 2007 was the culmination of work made over a two-year period as the Museum’s first Associate Artist. The papercuts and ceramic vases drew upon primary visual research made at the Museum that explored conceptual and visual ideas in the 18th-century French fêtes galantes paintings of Watteau alongside the pictorial and ornament represented in their Sèvres porcelain collection. The resulting artworks crossing fine and decorative art practices are a contemporary take on the women as a decorative, passive goddesses.
Fragmented Images, Wallner Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham, UK – 2008
Fragmented Images, The Wallace Collection, London, UK – 2007
Banner image: Fête Galante (detail), papercut, 130.5 x 91.5cm.
Scroll gallery: (1) Bathers: Spirals (detail), papercut, 91.7 x 128 cm; (2) Bathers: Orange, shadow, 91.7 127.5 cm; (3) Bathers: Floral, papercut, 91.7 x 127.4 cm; (4) Floating, colour slip, sprig & handcut transfer onto earthenware, 41 x 35cm, Collection of Brighton Museum; (5)Vase in Pinks, colour slip, sprig & handcut transfer onto earthenware, 41 x 35 cm; (6) Selection of vases, colour slip, sprigs & handcut transfer onto earthenware, dimensions variable.
Photo credits: Peter Abrahams.




