Lippy
By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/lucybrown"
title="Lucy Brown"
class="inline font-bold underline transition-opacity duration-100 hover:opacity-50 focus:opacity-50">
Lucy Brown
</a>
2017
- Sculpture
- Craft and Design
- Mixed Media
- Hair
- Textile Art
- Fibre Art
- Female
- Lipstick
- Body
- Hairwork
- Make-Up
- Textiles
- Exhibition
- Studio Practice
Dimensions
2cm w x 10 cm h x 1.5cm d
Lippy is from a series of sculptures exploring the taboo subject of female body/facial hair using make-up cases and tools which have an association with the mouth, upper lip and chin area. Around the Yardley, Ace of Hearts vintage lipstick, human hair has been straightened, twisted and teased into a caged entrapment, keeping rigid rule. Lippy’s tongue in cheek references to songs like ‘Lipstick, Powder and Paint’ (Stone; 1956) and has sexual implications.
Materials; Human Hair, thread, hairspray, vintage lipstick (Ace of Hearts. Yardley).
Photo credit - Alison Bettles 2018 ©
Alison Bettles 2018 ©
Alison Bettles 2018 ©
Alison Bettles 2018 ©
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