Dirty Pretty Faces
These use techniques of printmaking and drawing, at times interspersed with hand sewn and collage elements. The works have been inspired by female imagery from magazine advertising campaigns and fashion industry model shots. They ironically depict ideological figures of female beauty captured in doll-like poses, integrated with typically effeminate symbols such as flowers, lace and sensuous folds of material, toying with “feminine” connotations that are often suggested and manipulated in the original texts, to produce images which themselves are intentionally disturbingly beautiful.
