Curtain 1 (Untamed) & Curtain II (Table Manners) | 2025 | Repurposed curtain, acrylic paint, curtain rail
Curtain 1 (Untamed) & Curtain II (Table Manners) | 2025 | Repurposed curtain, acrylic paint, curtain rail
Photo by Reliant Imaging
Currently on show at Sorry about the mess at 125 Shaftesbury Avenue in London, curated by Babe Station. An exhibition of artists and writers (who are also mothers).
Photo by Studio Adamson for Babe Station
Curtain 1 (Untamed) & Curtain II (Table Manners) | 2025
Repurposed curtain, acrylic paint, curtain rail
Painted with wild brushstrokes on a pair of black curtains, unicorn mum breaks free from the domestic. The work Curtain I (Untamed) is my response to the tapestry work from the late Middle Ages called ‘The Captive Unicorn’, who seems so happily constrained by the fence surrounding her.
Following this rebellious attitude, in the work titled Curtain II (Table manners), she leaves all her manners behind. She jumps on the table and starts shaking her many boobies up in the air with big grinning teeth. She tears apart the ribbon she once so sweetly wore around her soft neck.
Unicorn mum is one of my alter egos who reminds me of enjoying the good in being bad. To love being ‘a mother’, but who still remains her own untamed, animalistic being. She’s a renegading good ‘bad mum’ who doesn’t clean after her emotional mess. And no, she’s not sorry for the mess.