Choose your lovers wisely
Artist: Kat Hayes
- Size: 33.9 x 52.8 x 0 inches (86 x 134 x 0 cm)
- Acrylic and varnish on board
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About the artwork
This piece is based on 'Ophelia' by Sir John Everett Millais. It deals with the subject of love and mortality and the perils of an ill-chosen lover. The piece is also intended as a study of not just human fragility but that of a way of thinking – symbolised by the overly romanticised version of life immortalised, or indeed created by the thoroughly modern pre-raphaelites, which has all but disappeared from contemporary representations today. As such a romanticised time immortalised in pre-raphaelite imagery was doubtful even to have existed, the piece is intended as a playful comment on the modern condition and the extinction of
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Kat Hayes
I am a London-based artist and primarily a sculptor first and foremost– although my work spans many different genres including painting, installation and relief. I studied formally at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and the University of Northampton but I’ve also developed my professional training with courses in stone carving, illustration and continuing studio practice at the WMC. I curate, organise and participate in a number of exhibitions in London (both solo and group shows) and I am also a founding Director of independent artist collective LOOSEgroup artists. I am inspired by artists such as Cathy de Monchaux, Eva Hesse, Joseph Beuys, Rachel Whiteread and Louise Bourgeois. I also am happy to take commis... (see more)
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