Exemplar Response
The post-modern works Bluebird claims excess baggage aboard post-modern airlines and Luggage, Baggage consists of two very large scale figurative prints which have an immediate impact on the audience. The first panel is an image of a hybrid 'bird-Venus' breaking free from repression while acknowledging the traditions of women's work. The second panel references images from art history to comment on the historic suppression and social conditioning of women in western culture. The work pays tribute to women's art and craft while celebrating the freedom that gender equity brings to contemporary society. Text and mediated images are cleverly and confidently integrated to produce a sustained work, which is uncompromisingly gutsy and raw, yet highly astute and selective in the choices of imagery, technique and execution of ideas.
