by Hattie Quigley
Oil on canvas
h: 190 w: 210 d: 3 (cms).
My artistic practice is interested in extremes. Large-scale paintings act as containers for emotion—feminine desire, hunger, grief, euphoria. Beginning with abstract pours, strokes and smears, figures emerge and dissolve within turbulent scenes of intimacy and excess, their bodies caught between celebration and collapse. These are places where pleasure is not tamed, where women and other bodies push against the narrow confines of acceptability, claiming the right to feel, want, gorge, and live without apology. The buttery, deliciousness of paint, flesh and food are bound together in emotional, pulsing marks that dance around the histories and language of painting - from the Baroque to Abstract Expressionism to pop culture. This painting in particular takes influence from Victorian fairy paintings, embracing the mischievous revelry of a mythical feast gone too far. I explore what it means to be a hungry woman in contemporary society.
£8500 (As exhibited.)
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by Hattie Quigley
Oil on canvas
h: 185 w: 150 d: 3 (cms).
Exploring the relationship between femininity, food and female desire, my work poses the question of what it means to be a hungry woman in contemporary society. Revelling in the deliciousness of being ‘too much’, I explore gluttony, excess and indulgence. It is political to talk about women who are unashamedly insatiable. I immerse the viewer in the visceral pleasure of my painted world; one where women gorge and feast, lose inhibition, and reject the notion that physical attractiveness should be a baseline before you can start to live. The buttery, deliciousness of paint, flesh and food are bound together in emotional, pulsing marks that dance around the histories and language of painting. Drawing inspiration from anything between mythical feasts and the baroque period to pop culture and binge drinking; a hedonistic bacchanal takes place within the paint. I want to explore women’s individual experience and the political and social meanings of body, of food, of thinness.
£4000 (As exhibited.)
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