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Anne-Marie Flannery - The Pussycat Bitch
Estimate:
€200 - €300
Sold
€120
Timed Auction
Arthouse 2023 - Day 2
ARTIST
Anne-Marie Flannery
Size
A2 (42cm x 59.4cm)
Category
Description
About artist: Anne-Marie Flannery graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2018 with a first class honours degree in Print Contemporary Practice. She was awarded the 2018 Limerick Printmakers Bursary Award and is currently developing her practice there.
About artwork: Anne-Marie Flannery’s practice is always centred around the female experience, with emphasis on the consumption and production of media. The source material for the work includes magazines, comic books and popular media, all collaged in similar fashion to the Riot Grrrl zines of the 90s. This methodology is key to the constantly underlying theme of girls’ bedroom culture and the publicising of that private space through internet culture. Masks and feline imagery are used as representations of The Other and as an exploration of the mythical and The Monstrous Feminine as tools to subvert the demonization of women in media. The cat demon works almost like a superhero alter ego, reclaiming the monstrous mantles given to women in history and folklore such as witches and sirens. The equating of the feline to the feminine in the work has countless inspirations, most notably; contemporary protests, the cat as the witch’s familiar, and the use of cats and kittens in anti-suffragette posters as symbols of “silly incompetent domestic creatures not suited to politics
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anne.flan.art/
Edition: Yes; 3 of 5
About artwork: Anne-Marie Flannery’s practice is always centred around the female experience, with emphasis on the consumption and production of media. The source material for the work includes magazines, comic books and popular media, all collaged in similar fashion to the Riot Grrrl zines of the 90s. This methodology is key to the constantly underlying theme of girls’ bedroom culture and the publicising of that private space through internet culture. Masks and feline imagery are used as representations of The Other and as an exploration of the mythical and The Monstrous Feminine as tools to subvert the demonization of women in media. The cat demon works almost like a superhero alter ego, reclaiming the monstrous mantles given to women in history and folklore such as witches and sirens. The equating of the feline to the feminine in the work has countless inspirations, most notably; contemporary protests, the cat as the witch’s familiar, and the use of cats and kittens in anti-suffragette posters as symbols of “silly incompetent domestic creatures not suited to politics
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anne.flan.art/
Edition: Yes; 3 of 5
Condition
Excellent Condition
Medium
4 layer screenprint (two 3-colour blend layers) with glitter flocking
Signature
Yes
