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Untitled (Shoulder) - detail

By Helen Barff 2016
Cast from the points of the body where you hold small children, on plinths at corresponding heights. Installation view: Liberties, The Exchange, Penzance, 2017. Photo: Steve Tanner (background image - Frances Kearney)
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Big Stick (hip), 2015

Brenda, Marion; Untitled (eleven) - on floor.

Brenda, Marion

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