'Rigging'

1 n. Ropes supporting a large structure.
2 n. Set-up / makeshift, to fit with clothes
3 v. To arrange dishonestly for one’s own advantage.


Pencil, solvent transfer & printed ink on Paper,
841 x 594mm
2007




This piece integrates lace imagery within the drawing, produced through different printmaking techniques; solvent transfer literally printing the pattern onto the paper directly from the material itself.

Lace has a strong association with women through its manufacture, history and use. A beautiful, delicate and "feminine" material used to decorate and adorn, opulence steeped in a history of women’s hard labour. Here the lace garment resembles a rope-like structure in which the woman is fitted, enhancing certain contours of her body, as she becomes tied into this conventionally delicate material and its 'dangerous' feminine connotations.