Can I be your baby girl?

Can I be your baby girl? 2012. Various Dimensions.

                                         Chris. 2012. 19 '' wall mounted LCD screen, 3.36 minute on loop.

   Installation view of table.

These are some images of my latest exhibition held at the Pearce Gallery. This work was centered around my explorations of misogyny within contemporary culture, domesticity and gender ideals.

Beauty Queen

   
                                  Beauty Queen. 2012. Ink Jet Print. 210 x 148 mm

Been having fun playing around with appropriated images as of late, hours of fun with not a lot of pressure makes me a happy girl :-)

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Breeezy wants to love you.

Untitled (Breezy wants to love you 1.) 2012. Ink Jet Print 210 x 148 mm.

Untitled (Breezy wants to love you 2.) 2012. Ink Jet Print 210 x 148 mm.

Yo breezy! 

These prints where from a series where I began to explore misogyny within pop culture more specifically pop music ( yes I no Chris, you probably consider yourself some amazing hip hop gangster god) and how its themes/ideals are operating within contemporary society.

Gotta love a bit of misogyny over the dinner table right?

Art Crush- Marianna Rothen

When my beautiful friend Maria returned from a trip to New York she gave me a little postcard from an exhibition of Marianna Rothen's photographs she had attended in the city of dreams with strict instructions that I must check out her practice, and I was instantly in love.

Her photographs have a beautiful light air to them whilst remaining captivating even after hour's of staring. The nod to nostalgic glamour of the 50s/60/70s of course had me drooling but I enjoy the fact that they are not denying their contemporary roots. She often places herself within an image but also employs a variety of female models, allowing for many a role to be played.

I am truly in awe of her work. Art/life/beauty crushing hard.

http://www.mariannarothen.com/

BETTY WANTS YOU TO EAT THE PACKET.

                Betty and me. 2012. Colour Ink Jet Print. 210 x 148 mm.

An image from some experimentations with staging and photography.

 Just playing around and having fun really, had a few new friends that day as I had made a rather large batch of cookies and a girl can only eat so many packet born cookies. 

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the american life

These are some stills from a work where I edited mundane clips of domestic American life of the 1950's into a simply video sequence. Visual Video doodling at its best. 

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Oh, Brother

George. 2012. Black and White Ink print. 210 x 148 mm.

An image and some stills from a photo and video series I did with my Twin brother. He's pretty handsome huh??

A bit much Bitch

These are some stills from a video work I made in collaboration with Clinton Richards and Sarah Byron Wood for the exhibiton Trans-action held at the Pearce Gallery in April 2012. 

               Image courtesy of Artsdiary. 

Check out some other shots of the exhibition here http://artsdiary.co.nz/bt12/454/1.html

Picture Goer 59.

These are a series of works that were exploring post war america and idealized versions of the female psyche within a contemporary context.

                  Milk with your loved ones. 2012. Black and White Ink Print 1189 x 841 mm

Ginger and Big. 2012. Colour Laser Print. 297 x 210 mm

                                                   

                       Smile with your eyes. 2012. Black and White Laser print. 297 x 210 mm