How She Looks

Venetia’s works speak to the curves of the female nude but abstracts them into shapes and lines. Her wispy forms are free flowing and have a joyous feeling of freedom, whilst marking the impression of womanhood rather than any absolutes. 

Alexandria’s new works see a clear reference to the Renaissance. Her charcoal works play on The Three Graces and Dancers, yet are reinterpreted with her own vision. Far from the dancing graces that flaunt their figures to male admires that we see may have seen in the works of Botticelli or Poussin, here we see a group of women who are more like warriors, rejoicing in their nudity and freedom. 

As with much of Hester’s work, these works bring to light the often conflicted concept of “nudity”. Sometimes nudity can make the subject vulnerable and offer transparency, but at other times it’s confrontational and provides a disguise. 

In Fee’s works we see a totally fresh and very different approach to the topic of the female gaze. Rather than portraying the female form, in Fee’s works we step inside the shoes of three different female artists from history, seeing life through their gaze in the form of a Vanitas.