your mum

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Saw this graffiti in Soho a few months ago … I’ve cropped it square so it could make an ‘alternative’ mother’s day cd album cover, ย rather than the usual pink florals and cuddly toy imagery! It’s a day late … well, better late than never.

child mannequins

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I posted the other day about mannequins – I’m intrigued by their surreal, ambiguous quality. Child mannequins are often particularly “strange”. Here’s one I took today; it (I’m uncertain about its intended age and gender) struck me as odd partly because of the false eyelashes and closed mouth grin: The next two were taken in … Read more

one of my paintings

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I’m decluttering and today tackled the bottom section of what was euphemistically called the art cupboard (it also contained a lot of junk)… and found this painting rolled up at the back . I can’t remember when I painted it … I think around 20 years ago. I know one theme was the representation of … Read more

frizz pics

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Yesterday I came across this “before and after” advert promoting a hair procedure to smooth out frizz. The assumption is that the left hand side – the more matt, frizzy, untamed side is undesirable, and the right hand side is the object of desire. Having “embraced” my naturally curly and sometimes wildly frizzy hair (especially … Read more

Representations of Gender, Age and Identity in Graffiti and Illustration

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I love this stencil graffiti I saw years ago in Venice. I assume the figure on the left is male and adult, running (and leading?) the figure on the right, who I assume to be female … mainly because of a triangle at the side of her head which suggests long hair and a trapezoid … Read more

Icons and signs: exotic femininity and “others”

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The other day I was in a tapas restaurant In London and saw a bottle with a fab label in their fridge. I had to photograph it (the arms are distorted but I wanted to keep the entire fan rather than crop the image) Here’s another sherry gypsy, a bit “Carmenesque”:   The image above … Read more