HND CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE (CAP 1)
Helen Chadwick: Piss Flowers
The artist creates a humorous atmosphere while still maintaining her overall themes of the natural world. Her I find her use of materials the most interesting the process of making the work (casting the interior spaces left in the snow by urine). The contrast of taking such a natural process and trying to capture and solidify something so impermanent and unimportant as urine. I think the artist was trying to communicate the importance of detail within everyday life and how beauty and brilliance can be extracted from the simplest thing.
Helen Chadwick was born in 1953 in Britain and became one of the first women artists to be nominated for the turner prize. She is best known for challenging and exploring the body in unconventional methods. Her work ranges from themes of science, myths, beauty, identity, femininity and the human body/form. She was associated with the feminist movement in the 1970s, specifically her earlier work where she addresses “The issue of the female body as a site of desire”. Her work protested and questioned the objectification of women and examined what exactly was gender and the role it plays in society.
https://www.richardsaltoun.com/artists/101-helen-chadwick/biography/
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/helen-chadwick-2253
https://www.artscatalyst.org/artist/helen-chadwick
https://www.jupiterartland.org/artwork/piss-flowers
https://fineart.ac.uk/works.php?imageid=bt0005
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