Petticoat Nightmares - Censored. Debuting at ACT ART 8 London 9th July 2010

Petticoat Nightmares - Oestrogen Xenoestrogen.'eROTic' at the Barbican Gallery, London, 26th August 2010 (As part of the Surreal House Exhibition running from 10th June).

 

I get the urge to create and I destroy,
I get the urge to love and the same usually happens.
I do not control my emotions, I can not understand them.
My artwork is like thrush, raw, scratchy and painful.
I have a scarily accurate memory and use it as ammunition.
I love and hate, I binge and purge.
I relish the chance to learn and my body reacts viciously to apathy. Growing ever growing.
Bernadette Louise

By constructing a backdrop suggestive of the maternal/home environment and emphasising the brutal female body as a confine, I depict what really goes on behind closed doors, within our minds and beneath our skin. A human reaction to feeling penned in, whether that trap is a kitchen, a body or an emotional state of restriction and manipulation. The repetitive but necessary torture of housework and gynaecology are key issues in recent works,, important points in mine and many others lives.

I use personal experience and commonplace imagery to connect with audiences, about honest and often taboo subject matter. I feel a need to acknowledge the differences and restrictions our bodies can have on us; a desire that will never manifest itself in anything other than an artwork.

"Bernadette Louise delves stilettos first in to the heart of the domestic and sexual identity. Having been labeled "the future" by the Fierce Festival, 'accused' of being a Confrontationalist, pigeonholed as Feminist, an Anti-Feminist, a sexual terrorist and an irrational housewife, people still struggle to place this multimedia artist in a box; she is genre-less. Her unwavering appeal is her honesty and dedication to speaking the emotional and physical truth in a creatively dramatic and theatrical way."

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