Marie Antoinette is a recent source of inspiration for a series of Mannequin prints. I found myself drawn to photograph mannequins. I saw something in their faces. They made me think of younger versions of myself. I chose a flower for each photograph from Marie Antoinettes secret garden at the Petit Trianon. It was a sad time in my personal life due to my husband’s death, and it was lockdown. I liked the connection with flowers and the idea that she created a private realm of pleasure for herself in her garden.
Marie Antoinette
Jean- Baptiste Lemoyne´s Sculpture/Bust titled Comtesse de Feuquieres 1738 on display at the Victorian and Albert Museum, London, commissioned by the Comtesse as a monument to her father was inspiration for my mixed media prints and videos made in 2020-24. A photocopied image of a curtain repeated and joined together by hand to make a whole is a constant in many of these works and a reference to my own grief in mourning my father.
Moments in time, architecture and everyday spaces remain subjects of interest. Earlier work with photographs focused on aspects of looking such as windows curtains and reflections. Life sized hand made prints were face mounted behind glass and installed in the space of the gallery drawing attention to the space around the image.

