The Myth Eaters

I will be building a new installation The Myth Eaters in my favorite blacked-out installation space in my converted shed in Rupture's back garden for our Open Studios on the 29th. This space has hosted numerous performances and installations through the years and is always exciting to build. The piece is a return to textiles for me. I am working with a delicious, diaphenous dusty rose chiffon fabric, indicating the 'red scarf of passion' which is often carried by putto or by the main figure, for instance, it is clutched by Europa in Titian's Rape of Europa, and this mark, of her fist and the trailing scarf, is embedded across my paintings. Bringing the 'red scarf of passion' into my shed, and rouching and pouching and pocketing and rending and staining and forming it, I am meditating on the nature of myth, what it teaches us about our roles in life, especially what these myths and their depictions teach us about our gender roles, the purpose of gender, and how to perform it correctly. 

I will be performing The Myth Eaters as a durational performance inside the installation 'sketch' as a work-in-progress on the 29th at our performance and reading evening.

This work is the first sketch of an impulse which I will expand for my annual winter residency in the front exhibition space at Rupture. The work can be observed being built from 1 Dec, and will be available for viewing by appointment and through the shop front window for the month of January. At the end of January we are excited to hold our winter open studios, with our first ever 'writing show' which will feature Rupture's writers' work to be found all through the spaces, live readings fireside and in the templum, performances, and live jazz.  Reserve here