Pretty Girls Doing Horrid Things
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'I just hope I can get back to everybody really soon' - Graphite and ink on paper
'I just hope I can get back to everybody really soon' - Graphite and ink on paper
'I mean, I am fine' - Graphite and ink on paper
'I mean, I am fine' - Graphite and ink on paper
'I am an example and a warning' - Ink, marker, watercolour and graphite on paper
'I am an example and a warning' - Ink, marker, watercolour and graphite on paper
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'I have chosen to stay and fight' - Graphite on paper
'No one received any beef or lamb' - Watercolour and ink on paper
Untitled - Resin and wooden embroidery hoop
'Patria o Muerte, Venceremos' - Thread on fabric with wooden embroidery hoop
'These beautiful sisters and brothers' - Thread on fabric with wooden embroidery hoop
'She was wise and bad' - Graphite and marker on paper
'She was wise and bad' - Graphite and marker on paper
'Mom should get out of the black dress' - Graphite, ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on paper
'I am an example and a warning' - Ink, marker, watercolour and graphite on paper
'I am an example and a warning' - Ink, marker, watercolour and graphite on paper
'I have been given the name Tania' - Graphite, watercolour, gauche and ink on paper
'I have been given the name Tania' - Graphite, watercolour, gauche and ink on paper
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'From 12 or 14 to 18 or 20 is that period of life in which the tide of natural affection runs the lowest, leaving the body and the intellect unfettered and unweakened in the work of development and leaving the heart itself open for the strong passions and overwhelming preferences that will then seize it. Sad to say, it is the softer sex especially which is said to go through a period of almost utter heartlessness.' - The Times, 1865
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This show explores the social construct of villainy, and especially the black and white/good and evil nature of being young and female, using the story of heiress Patty Hearst's kidnapping and Stockholm Syndrome in the 1970s. Traditionally 'well-behaved' media such as pencil, embroidery and craft-inspired techniques depict jarring and sometimes disturbing images of what it's like to be a national monster grown from a girl.
2012