Artist: Kerry Inkster
Year: 2022
Materials: Acrylic and spray paint on stretched canvas
Edition: Unique
Dimensions: 76 x 76 x 4cm
Location: Melbourne
Price: $2,400
About the artwork:
Kerry’s work is derived from images from popular culture, and when she came across this image she was reminded of the little dolls on sticks that her father used to purchase for her at the Annual Royal Show. She also recalled the same dolls featured in the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics back in 2000. Curious as to the meaning behind the dolls, and after a little research, she found that the dolls were based on the ‘Marcella kewpie’, a flapper-girl Japanese version of Rose O’Neill’s cowlicked, roly-poly original. O’Neill, said to be America’s first woman cartoonist, first featured her Kewpie cartoon in the Ladies Home Journal in 1907. She became widely known as the Mother of the Kewpie, and her subsequent fame and fortune led to her supporting a large family and many artists. Twice divorced, O’Neill used her fame to propagate feminist ideals and challenged society’s gender roles through the suffrage movement and her own art. “Isn’t it a funny thing” has been named after a line in one of O’Neills rights to women’s votes poster. Kerry has created this painting as a homage – to her childhood, to the Kewpie Doll, and to promote O’Neills legacy and message of equality which is still needed today! It’s bright, it’s beautiful and uplifting, and certainly means more than meets the eye. Kerry’s beautiful “doll” rises in the water towards her own reflection – perhaps seeing her own history – to move above and beyond.
The canvas is covered in Japanese Rice Paper to give a lovely texture that is akin to the movement on the surface of water. And, as with most of Kerry’s paintings, she has painted in layers. The background using action painting (expressionistic) techniques – pouring, dripping, splashing paint and involving my body in the painting process rather than just the paint brush. The figure was created using contemporary art pop art techniques and stencils, and a further layer of hand painting brought the foreground and background together. Kerry’s palette is colourful and uses strong contrasts to capture an uplifted mood. Mostly consisting of complementary colours, Kerry focuses on using phthalo greens, blue and orange.
$2,400.00
1 in stock
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