Trisha Stone
QU/GU/G-ilty
2020
"What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, and everything nice; That's what little girls are made of.”
Taking as her starting point early embroidered samplers and quilts the artist has subverted these traditions by making the work out of a variety of items including cotton lace, spices (hibiscus flowers, cloves, star anise, black pepper), confectionary, plastic vegetable netting, nut shells, mother of pearl buttons, galvanized iron hooks, string and sundry beach pickings (seaweed, oyster shells, other shells) all of which have been embedded into latex.
This piece brings into question “niceness” and the social norms usually attached to girls and their worlds. Reconfiguring the binary attributes of the different sexes and utilising materials which bring to mind a hinterland of less savoury connotations.
By embedding into latex, as opposed to being stitched together, the piece remains flexible whilst also consolidated. The material quality of the piece is no longer pretty or domestic and moves towards the “Unheimlich” or un-homely as characterised by Freud’s use of The Uncanny.
It also introduces other senses including smell, whilst staying sweet, there are references to spices used historically to mask distasteful odours and disguise rotting or less palatable food.
https://trishastone.co.uk/gu-qu-g-ilty/
This piece brings into question “niceness” and the social norms usually attached to girls and their worlds. Reconfiguring the binary attributes of the different sexes and utilising materials which bring to mind a hinterland of less savoury connotations.
By embedding into latex, as opposed to being stitched together, the piece remains flexible whilst also consolidated. The material quality of the piece is no longer pretty or domestic and moves towards the “Unheimlich” or un-homely as characterised by Freud’s use of The Uncanny.
It also introduces other senses including smell, whilst staying sweet, there are references to spices used historically to mask distasteful odours and disguise rotting or less palatable food.
https://trishastone.co.uk/gu-qu-g-ilty/