The Artist Challenging the Age-Old Iconography of Femininity

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A riff on the symbols of femininity ❤️

’s latest exhibition at LAMB Arts. Inspired in part by Virginia Woolf’s noveland its subversion of gender conventions, this texturally rich collection, including oil pastels, sculpture and embroidery, presents an eclectic iconography of feminine associations from sinks to figurines to ancient symbols of fertility, united by playful irony and a vivid colour palette.

In the first room, three vibrant paintings of sinks surround a large embroidered wall hanging of a female nude, laying out the exhibition’s thematic intention in their clear allusion to traditionally feminine spaces. But MacGreevy goes beyond a simple commentary on the domestic, explaining that she was attracted to the idea of “a big gunky hole at the centre of the kitchen that’s almost anatomical, but also cleansing and purifying.

 

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