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.