Dismembered Figure in Tall Grass

40cm x 60cm

2025  

Drawing, collage and stained-glass frame
 

Part of ongoing use the Assemblage and Diagram in Deleuze and Guattari, and the history of religious art to develop a “dismembered Écriture Féminine”; where a strategy of bricolage becomes a reflection of transition-as-becoming and capacity for repair.
 
Copy from when exhibited as part of “Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artits” at Compton Verney, UK, (2025).

"This artwork shows a figure standing in tall grass surrounded by a swarm of body parts. Breakdown relates the idea of the dismembered body to disability and the DIY culture of working-class transfemininism, to think of the self as within the collective and always changing.

 

The artist replaces the idea of the fixed body with something always repaired and shared through support networks. This is indicated in the work through the layering of many parts, from the ghostly hands and faces suggesting a community of shared knowledge, to its presentation in a delicate handmade glass border. Breakdown incorporates cultural motifs, from manicules - a typographic mark in the form of a pointing hand - to the cyborg protagonist of the Ghost in the Shell manga and anime series."