Painted Ladies
Jessica Harrison's freaky figurines
For many more images from the Scottish artist’s debut in Paris click here.
From this review:
The exhibit, titled FLASH, features yet another incarnation of Jessica’s manipulated porcelain works. Earlier works by the artist –Broken Ladies– were of mutilated, decapitated and maimed female figurines. This time the classic porcelain ladies are tattooed with traditional sailor symbolism (Clipper ships, swallows, skulls, hearts, etc). These ‘Painted Ladies’, as they are called, are found objects the artist then alters.
The Savers store I trek to semi-annually to buy my daughters unlimited second-hand clothes also has a serious area of knicknackery. I see a lady on the top shelf that would be perfect for this. Maybe lower shelves’ nonsense is a bit better for the decapitated and maimed series.
