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| The Girls Andrea Blood Zoe Sinclair | |
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The Girls are award-winning artists Zoe Sinclair (b.1976) and Andrea Blood (b.1975), who began their collaboration at Central Saint Martins School of Art in 1996. The British Journal of Photography has compared The Girls to Gilbert and George. The Girls have shown their work at The National Portrait Gallery, The Photographers Gallery, the ICA, and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA). |
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The Girls are British artists Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair, who have reformed their award-winning collaboration after a hiatus of 7 years. |
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THE EMBODIED SOUL PASSES THROUGH GIRLHOOD TO DEATH by The Girls
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| Ouija board sessions around the kitchen table at night, and the dreams that followed, were the inspiration for this multiple self-portrait by The Girls - Andrea Blood and Zoë Sinclair. The work depicts the artists in their previous lives, Sinclair as an aristocrat and Blood as a pauper; and portrays their reincarnation into their current lives, using a montage of childhood and contemporary photographs. The artists’ childhood home of Poole, a town on England’s south coast which boasts a large natural harbour, provides a stunning backdrop. The cyclical element of the piece is underscored by a temporal shift between dusk and dawn, and further emphasised by a strategically-placed hourglass, which represents both the transience of time, and the fragility of life.
Throughout the piece, the artists have provided clues as to the demise of both women from their prior incarnations. Blood’s pauper flashes the viewer a suggestive smile, and displays a seductively confident demeanour along with her ample assets. Is Blood’s pauper supporting herself and her infant through employment in the world’s oldest profession? Further suggesting either promiscuity or prostitution, the transformation of Blood’s tartish pauper from seductive trollop to ravaged hag includes a lewd suggestion of venereal discomfort. Did she meet her untimely and unpleasant end through syphilis?
Faring no better, Sinclair’s aristocrat is portrayed with the fashionably white complexion regarded as ideal for women of her class background until the early twentieth century. To achieve this look, white lead called ceruse, was used as make-up. Ceruse had some unpleasant cosmetic side effects such as greying and cracking, and had a depilatory effect, causing the eyebrows to fall off, permanently. Women replaced these with fake ones made of mouse fur, and in so doing Sinclair’s aristocrat displays the youthful maiden-like and privileged beauty that is captured in the first image. The loss of this beauty is markedly evident in the second image portraying a withered old woman. Ceruse, unfortunately, was absorbed by the skin and prolonged use resulted in lead poisoning. Was this the fate of Sinclair’s aristocrat?
Reborn in modern times, Blood and Sinclair’s souls come together again in childhood, reflecting an enduring bond, and altogether happier times. The artists’ life lines are tied with a bow in the centre of the piece, illustrating their strong bond as collaborative artists, The Girls’ shared optimism for the future, and hinting at an inter-connectivity of humanity extending beyond the physical world into the metaphysical realm. By Vik Gill |
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THE EMBODIED SOUL PASSES THROUGH GIRLHOOD TO DEATH (detail, left panel) by The Girls |
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THE EMBODIED SOUL PASSES THROUGH GIRLHOOD TO DEATH (detail, middle panel) by The Girls |
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THE EMBODIED SOUL PASSES THROUGH GIRLHOOD TO DEATH (detail, right panel) by The Girls |
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GARDEN PARTY by The Girls |
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| Never ones to balk at controversy, The Girls dismantle the boundaries between gastronomy and pornography in their latest work, 'Garden Party'. Redefining the concept of food porn, the piece transcends the merely erotic, offering a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the darker realms of humanity lurking somewhere between the banality of everyday life and extraordinary perversion. The Girls draw upon the idea of Nyotaimori, the Japanese practice of eating sushi or sashimi from the naked body of a young woman, as is said to be favoured by business men and Yakuza gangsters. 'Garden Party' smirks at cultural norms, blithely transforming the quintessential English tea party into something rather less morally comfortable. Playing artfully with understatement, The Girls invoke a familiar middle class world of cricket lunches and tea with the Vicar to full effect with their cleverly offhand inclusion of a gender-ambiguous vicar seen casually sipping tea from a dainty china tea cup while reaching for a French fancy. It is this provocative insouciance that gives the work its tremendous power. Is the woman-as-picnic-table dead, bored, or willing? Does the Vicar regard her as merely an obedient trophy to do with as he pleases, in total subjugation to his lascivious desires? Or has he become so desensitised to his own perversion that he regards as nothing more shocking than tea and cakes that which others see as desecration. 'Garden Party' challenges viewers to examine their own prurience, and perhaps religious hypocrisy, away from the cosy sentiment of cultural tradition. Doing so makes for uncomfortable viewing. By Vik Gill |
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GARDEN PARTY Part 2 by The Girls |
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SPECIAL (Self-Portrait) by The Girls |
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SELF-PORTRAIT AS PRINCES WILLIAM & HARRY by The Girls |
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SUB ROSA by The Girls |
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| EDUCATION Central Saint Martins School of Art, BA (Hons) Graphic Design The Arts Institute (Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design - Shelley Park) AWARDS The Observer Hodge Award, First Prize Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (LACDA), Juried Competition Marie Claire Photographic Awards The Sixteenth Association of Photography Awards The Association of Photography/Kodak Student Awards, First Prize, Fashion Photography The D&AD Student Awards, First Prize, Point of Sale Design The D&AD Student Awards, Highly Commended, Photography Vogue/Central Saint Martins Fashion Magazine Design Competition, First Prize Central Saint Martins Self-Portrait Photography Competition, First Prize EXHIBITIONS Belladonna: The ICA, London The John Kobal Award Exhibition: The National Portrait Gallery, London The Observer Hodge Award Exhibition: The Photographers' Gallery, London Lethaby Gallery, London Bitscapes: Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) Juried Competition Show: Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) PUBLISHED WORK The Observer The Guardian Creative Review Diva Magazine The British Journal of Photography Marie Claire Drapers Record Hotshoe Magazine Pride Magazine Boomerang Postcards The Zoo The Observer Hodge Photographic Award book, published by Vision On Publishing The John Kobal Photographic Award book, published by Zelda Cheatle Press Photography by John Ingledew, published by Laurence King |
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| 未来的展览 | |
| 6 September - 1 November 2008 | Solo show at Beverley Knowles Fine Art, Notting Hill Beverley Knowles Fine Art is the only art gallery in Britain specialising in contemporary female artists. The gallery, with its distinctive bubble gum pink exterior, is just off Portobello Road. www.beverleyknowles.com Sign up for updates at www.thegirls.co.uk |
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