Amy Blackwell & Cary Welling

What a Difference Size Makes!

Early experiments with scale

23rd - 28th September 2017

Amy Blackwell made her drawings over twenty-five years ago when she was about six years old and they became scary when Cary printed them life size. This week they have been described as 'fierce'; Amy says that she was "just making them beautiful and strong looking".

Cary made the other images in the exhibition: the lips in the early 80s and the dolls ten years later. She was experimenting with scale and cropping to see whether she could make pictures that communicated a powerful sense of personality. Neither of the projects concerned telling the truth; most obviously dolls don't have personalities to communicate.