About
Sculptrix
Lives & works in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Sculptrix is an Artist specialising in Sculpture.
Born in Uk in 1977.
She studied at Leith school of Art and has most recently Graduated from Grays School of Art.
Using natural materials as metaphors I represent the life cycle and the human connection with nature. Not just through the process of fertility, growth and aging, but through shape and organic form.
I look at binary oppositions through the nature-culture and male-female, absence-presence dichotomies. I address gender and identity using organic materials and form.
By using these organic materials to represent body shape and form and using the human body through performance in nature to look organic, I touch closely with the fragility of the earth and the fragility of being human. I closely relate the fragility of the earth to the fragility of human life and believe that damage to the earth and the environment is damage to us, the abuse of one directly affects the other.
As a sex-positive feminist, some of my work celebrates the liberation of the human form.
This is healing, growing and changing, becoming in your own power and control. Embracing are own choices.
Healing from oppression, such as exploitation and abuse, manipulation and control. Healing from sexual objectification and directly confronting this context through the process of exhibiting and objectifying (Displaying) the art work or performance.
Some of the Damage and repair, which is represented within my work communicates awareness surrounding these issues.
I commemorate the form in a ritualistic process.
I am greatly inspired by Louise Bourgeois by her use of male and female body parts and in her fascination with Hysteria.
Louise Bourgeouis said that 'By isolating a body part, I draw attention to it and play with notions of its connotations and representation.' I can relate to this within my own work.