Beauty In Bodily Realities: Recontextualising the Feminine Experience Through Expanded Ceramic Practice
Master of Fine Art final research project, 2024
RMIT University
‘Beauty in Bodily Realities: Recontextualising the Feminine Experience Through Expanded Practice’
MFA Exam installation, RMIT University, June 2024
‘Come Hither’, 2024
porcelain, acrylic nails, ceramic tiles
dimensions variable
Installation view, photographs by Anabelle Stonehouse ©
‘Corporeal Disarray’, 2024
porcelain, ready-made bathroom sink, red sugar syrup
Installation view, photographs by Anabelle Stonehouse ©
These collections, Come Hither and Corporeal Disarray are the final bodies of work Anabelle’s Master of Fine Art by coursework at RMIT University.
Titled Beauty in Bodily Realities: Recontextualising the feminine experience through expanded ceramic practice; this practice-led research uses hand crafted porcelain forms, readymade materials and ephemeral substances in unconventional methods of display to create active, temporal installations.
Intimate hand-made sculptures are combined with edible liquids made of white sugar icing and red raspberry syrup to signify bodily fluids. This method of surface treatment is used to evoke abject personal familiarity alongside more misunderstood aspects of femaleness.
Notions of beauty, desire, sexuality, the grotesque and gender bias are explored to reveal hidden aspects of the feminine experience.