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Stephanie is collaborating with post-menopausal women artists, exploring ageing, loss, and transformation. Together they are creating new work that challenges invisibility and celebrates mature women's creativity.
Ageing is an important process but it’s also very annoying. We are a group of like-minded women artists in The Forest who together have been exploring how best to embody the trouble with our bodies.
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I wanna hold you, wanna hold you tight… is the main piece I am taking to Venice. It took nearly a year to complete and a lot of size 11 (mostly Miyuki) seed beads. It’s a cradle supporting the loss of firmness and vitality; half sexy and half turning towards death. It’s intimate and fleshy, shielded and open.
Frou Frou is a beaded sculpture that portrays the inevitable and uninvited sagging of breasts. It is a specimen. I am hoping that my conversation is enough but if it isn’t then my hair, my make-up my face are the focus of attention. I don’t want my counterpart to look down and note the aging of my sexuality. Frou Frou is a serious but playful attempt to talk about the dying of the light.