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Wendy Cotterill

MA Design & Applied Art

 

Fabric claimed territory as a legitimate medium of art, driven in part by the feminist agenda of the 70s, but gained ground by presenting works of art in a modular format, arranged in sequences, either as free standing sculpture or hung flat against the white walls of modernist galleries.
The work exhibited here articulates this idea by stacking and scaling objects in sequences of threes.

In the 90s, Tracey Emin progressed the status of fabric as art by combining low tech media and commonplace objects, in her chosen medium of textiles - to leverage her ideas, not by adopting the feminist ideal of collectivity, but in harnessing the power of 'celebrity'. Moreover, Emin gained both critical recognition and notoriety in equal measure.

The piece of work chosen for this exhibition illustrates three aspects of modern celebrity culture, referencing; consumerism, agency and makers & making. My question here is;   who is making what.......?

[Fig right:] Making Mollie

Taken from the series
Women making money
out of women making

 

 

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