Dentata (Series), 2022
Painted ceramic
20.0 x 17.5 x 3.5 cm
Exhibitions:
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, 2022
Online Exhibition in support of Freedom Charity (who give support to survivors of forced marriage and those who have endured the horrors of female genital mutilation), Guts Gallery & the Vagina Museum, 2023
Dentata sits in the tradition of the Sheela Na Gig: architectural grotesques which were found throughout medieval Europe whose apotropaic magic was said to ward spirits away. They hark to the remnants of a pre-Christian fertility or mother goddess religion. Feminist scholars have appropriated the image as a gesture of rebellion against misogyny.
