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My work is a way of exorcising something from myself, which is very emotional, maybe troubled. I become[...]
My work is a way of exorcising something from myself, which is very emotional, maybe troubled. I become a subject who produces that which is visible. It is my silent, non-verbal response.
My practice involves digital photography, the manipulation of my body using this process, documentation of hair growth and removal, cleansing, grooming, this relentless self surveillance and obedience.
There are a multiplicity of socio-cultural concerns about femininity and feminism, about the body, about individual control and consumption within a consumer society. Food is the medium through which women are addressed, in turn; food has become the language of women’s response.
The artwork is a play on traditional sculptural concerns, the process of adding or taking away. However, this is not achieved using stone or wood but chocolate or soap, degradable or even edible materials which underline the transient state of the body. The final works show the seductive yet repellent nature of human anatomy.
My practice involves digital photography, the manipulation of my body using this process, documentation of hair growth and removal, cleansing, grooming, this relentless self surveillance and obedience.
There are a multiplicity of socio-cultural concerns about femininity and feminism, about the body, about individual control and consumption within a consumer society. Food is the medium through which women are addressed, in turn; food has become the language of women’s response.
The artwork is a play on traditional sculptural concerns, the process of adding or taking away. However, this is not achieved using stone or wood but chocolate or soap, degradable or even edible materials which underline the transient state of the body. The final works show the seductive yet repellent nature of human anatomy.
Recognition
Professional Artist
Exercises the profession of artist as a main activity
Exercises the profession of artist as a main activity
Biography
Multidisciplinary artist. Riba-roja d'Ebre.
Misselbrook was born in the United Kingdom in 1977.
The artist graduated with honours in Fine Arts in 2000, Nottingham Trent University (UK) and it is from then on, when she begins her multimedia practice. In 2007, she studied for a postgraduate degree in Fine Arts at the Cyprus College of Art, Paphos. In 2011, she studied a Master of Fine Arts at the Winchester School of Art (UK). Since 2012, Misselbrook has lived in the Riba-roja d'Ebre countryside, which serves as her connection and is her source of inspiration for her works.
Her practice includes 'performance', video recordings with her voice in isolation and 'site-specific' sculptural installations. She addresses various topics such as gender, feminism, the female body as a canvas, and consumption. In this sense, she focuses on the individual responsibility of consumption and its environmental consequences. To do this, she uses degradable or edible materials such as chocolate, soap, latex, soil or wax.
The juxtaposition of hard against soft, light against dark, and sensual against skeleton are elements of Misselbrook's visual language. In short, an internal struggle in a body that is all-consuming.
Recently, she has been invited to create an installation and a performance in the Maials forest, which was devastated by a forest fire in June 2019. The work is part of the 'Cendrart' project.
Her works are the result of the total immersion in the rural environment and the constant research on the balance between life and death, transience and fragility.
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Nationality:
UNITED KINGDOM
- Date of birth : 1977
- Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary British Artists
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Education
2010 - 2011
Masters in Fine Art
Winchester,
United Kingdom
1997 - 2000
BA Honours in Fine Art with Distinction
Nottingham,
United Kingdom
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