'give me your blacklisted'
Jemima Brown
Wed 4th Oct – Sat 28th Oct
PV: Tues 3rd Oct 6 – 8pm
Rosy Wilde
79 Wardour St,London
(Entrance in Tisbury Court)
Piccadilly/Leicester Square
Opening Hours: Wed – Sat 12 -6pm
Tel: +44 (0) 207 851 8547
info@rosywilde.co.uk
'Often working with an avatar- her manufactured twin sister Dolly – Jemima Brown has brought her quirky post-feminist works into exsistence for over a decade. The work of Jemma and Dolly is often associated with an intrinsic, (amplified) Englishness. It's there in the landscape photographs and in the decorative elements deployed in wallpapers, drawings and sculptures; it's there in the home-brew genetically mutated sculptures with both human and animal elements; a perversly grown-up notion of the world of Beatrix Potter. And, to some extent, it's also there in her early decision to work with an avatar; a replica of herself. Eccentricity, after all, is one of the ways that English Society allowed a kind of pre-feminism to evolve before it was formalised in more immediate political terms…'
(Ken Pratt 2006)
Full text at:
www.rosywilde.blogspot.com
