Learning to Draw from Books: Austen to Bronte, 2014
Materials: photographic prints of book covers and drawings
During 2013 and 2014 I exclusively read women’s fiction from the 18th and 19th centuries. I found the authors illuminated the constraining societal norms that women lived within at that time. I also became interested in the ways in which illustrators for contemporary publications of the novels attempted to represent the stories within the books with their cover illustrations; sometimes successfully, sometimes not. This interest prompted me to make my own drawings and collages in response to these depictions, in this instance, a pair of photo-montaged works consisting of pencil drawings of book cover illustrations (Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte). The drawings were photographically reproduced and overlaid onto photographs of the book covers.
Exhibited at Notes Towards a Future Feminist Archive, Cross Art Books, Kings Cross, Sydney.