The following are small sections of larger images of some of my work. If you want to get the full picture, click on the image.
The Sheer Impossibility of Holding Things Together: still life
Each apple was peeled and sewn back together.This work has to be resewn for each new exhibition and is presented as a dinner-plate full of sewn apples in a glass vitrine. This also exists as a set of three photographs marking the collapse of the apples over a six week period. `
Conversations with a Goddess
Writing is imprinted into the paper but is not visible until graphite is rubbed into the surface, rather as in an old film when the policeman scrubs a pencil over a blank notepad to reveal a message. An 8' graphite drawing from the series of drawings based on ancient representations of the feminine, things that have been said about the feminine, and my reactions to and between these.
The Cloning Quilt
The cot quilt is hand sewn and is laid on a stainless steel bed which apparently floats 2 feet above the floor so the viewer has to bend down to see it. The stitching flows around the rigid patterning of the interfacing cells.
The Fitting
This is the male of a wedding couple. Each 'person' is made of scraps of clothes that have been pinned together to make the masculine and feminine.
Fixed
Five welded steel columns support a pile of neatly folded clothes which are held in place under a 'shelf' by their own belts.They are nine foot high and take a floor space of fifteen feet by five feet.
For Those Without Doubt
One of three images, 60 x 35, cloth on foamboard, framed in black pine. I unpicked a man's suit and rearranged the pieces into images of past cultures and future hopes. Strictures of the suit released
Tradition
Rope made from torn clothes. 150 foot of 3 strand rope supported on 3 foot high free-standing steel needles.
All this work is available for exhibition or sale. A limited edition book of these images and thoughts on their making is also for sale as are limited edition prints of The Sheer Imossibility if Living
Contact me by email. My address is anne@annemawdsley.co.uk or visit me at Persistence Works, Brown Street, Sheffield, by appointment. New work and web-site coming soon.
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