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Natalie Sirett Art

Other Brides

I am interested in female icons in contemporary culture, fairy tale and myth; from ​Eve and Pandora to Drag Kings and Barbie Brides. With a curated perfection of the body's image being a modern social expectation, fear of seeming monstrous is omnipresent. I feel that femininity in both men and women that does not conform to the narrowest of prescribed frameworks, is still socially unacceptable and at times, actively punished. I believe that women and girls in particular (although not exclusively) engage in self-erasure because, centuries since The Fall, they still buy into the notion that they are objects of shame. So I delve back into the stories of notorious women in our culture seeking to re-imagine their narratives.
DRAG QUEEN BRIDE, oil on wood 30 x 30cm, Private Collection.
DRAG KING BRIDE, oil on wood 30x30cm, 2016 oil on wood 30 x 30cm, Private Collection.
BARBIE BRIDE, oil and metal leaf on wood, 60x80cm, 2016
BARTERED BRIDE, oil and metal leaf on wood, 60x80cm, 2016
THE FIRST MRS ROCHESTER, oil & metal leaf on wood, 60 x 80cm, Private Collection.
OPHELIA, oil and metal leaf on wood, 60x80cm, Private Collection.
PERSEPHONE, oil and metal leaf on wood, 60x80cm, 2016
MISS HAVERSHAM, oil & metal leaf on wood, 60 x 80cm, Natalie Sirett, 2016
CHILD BRIDE, oil & metal leaf on wood, 60 x 80cm, Natalie Sirett, 2016
PANDORA'S BOX, oil & gold leaf on wooden box, 30x21x6cm, 2015
PANDORA'S BOX, oil & gold leaf on wooden box, 30x21x6cm, 2015
PANDORA'S BOX, oil & gold leaf on wooden box, 30x21x6cm, 2015
BLUEBEARD'S BRIDES, oil & gold leaf on wooden box, 30x21x6cm, 2015
BLUEBEARD'S BRIDES, oil & gold leaf on wooden box, 30x21x6cm, 2015
BLUEBEARD'S BRIDES, oil & gold leaf on wooden box, 30x21x6cm, 2015
THE RED SHOES, oil & gold leaf on wooden box, 30x21x6cm, 2015
THE RED SHOES, oil & gold leaf on wooden box, 30x21x6cm, 2015
THE HAZEL BRANCH, oil and copper on wood, 93 x 153cm, Natalie Sirett, 2015
FITTING, oil and copper on wood, 93 x 153cm, Natalie Sirett, 2016
CINDERELLA’S WISHING TREE, 93 x 153cm, Natalie Sirett, oil on wood, 2016
BLACK MADONNA, oil and metal leaf on wood, 60x80cm, 2016
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