Viewing all 52 works from 2007
Lauren Brender
Moriah College
- Artwork title
- The female paradox
- HSC year
- 2006
- ARTEXPRESS year
- 2007
- Expressive form
- Painting
- Artist’s statement
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My body of work represents my interest in the role of feminist thought in contemporary society, whereby the historical feminist fight for opportunity has equated to a backlash. Influenced by the works of the postmodern artist Sigmar Polke, my artwork is involved in the paradoxical concept that women can ‘have it all’; as the advertising campaigns say, they are ‘worth it’, yet the expectation and typecast of domestic housewife still stands as a strong juxtaposition. Herein lays the ever-present tension between the role of women; the silence and voice of the female gender. Is it still inevitable that women speak softly and carry a mop and bucket?
