The Manufactured Body Project /Archives (2017-ongoing)
The Manufactured Body Project is the practice research project I have been working on since 2017. Although this project has been historically academic it continues to use my body as the canvas and the material of my work as a form of research.
Academically it explores transverses the humanities, philosophy, social sciences, social construction and art theory with a historical focus on body image in art and how artists used the body in art practice from the 1960s-onwards whilst understanding art historical contexts of the body.
This lens of interrogation has evolved through the focus as the exhibition as research tool since 2021 that now considers the public and the audience as the material to expand the research further.
The focus of the project is to provoke a conversation and document how we can re-manufacture our bodies (Including our Body Image) positively. is there a different way can reimagine, handle or discuss the body?
“We (our bodies/ourselves)
are just material socially
constructed by language, knowledge and experience”
(Dollery, 2020-2024).
Written material currently published on ResearchGate.
I am interested in our bodies' transformative, visceral nature and using the artist's body as research. Using the artist's body this way changes our perceptions and hopefully provokes a conversation about how we manufacture our future bodies differently. Additionally, it collapses the space between the artist and the life model and pushes what drawing, painting and photography can be when using the body to reimagine our bodies differently. It transcends and transforms all traditional interpretations of the body.
This project is personal to me because I live with a body that has been every dress size from a size 8 through to a size 26 and undergone medical interventions alongside this. Its an ethical decision to focus on the use of my body.
"I use my body as the canvas, because it's the material I know the best; it's malleable, transformable and honest"...
I am NOT your Venus (2024)
A Theory on a Miss Performance 23-24
Becoming Body Layering Concept 2023.
This body of work is a form of process from previous work. It contemplates the space between fine art and applied art, health and material bodies, and the arrangement of subject and object. A holistic approach to what our bodies are becoming?
Critique from Instagram.
Describes as visceral, beautiful, elements of skin tones that strike at the heart of the body and paint being part of one. You can feel and see yourself immersing yourself in the work and becoming one with it. The black and white/ jubilation of shape and colours. There's a chaotic control to your work- like a permeative search for self within the eye of the storm. (This is true within the making of the work. The performance aspect or use of the live/real body is chaotic and intuitive. Then it becomes controlled through the juxtaposition- digitally of the images).
A counterblast to cyberspace is exploring our humanity as AI encroaches but having to hide behind facades. This brings it all into question alongside the authenticity of AI.
The Manufactured Body, Artist Talk, Digital Exhibition, Times Square New York, 2023.
22 June 2023, The Manufactured Body Project, as part of Artist Talk digital Magazine, was shown on screens in Times Square New York.
The Manufactured Body Exhibition, 2023.
The Manufactured Body Exhibition, a five-room curation held at the historic Ancient Priors in March 2023.
Becoming the Painting Series 2021-ongoing.
My DIRTY Body Installation 2023.
The Body as a Canvas 2019-2022.
Exploring the body's Materiality as the canvas performance, film, process and photography. The work exists in films of the body becoming a painting, showing the material reality of our bodies and skin and exploring themes of body image and transformation.
Body as a Canvas 2019-2021
Body as a Canvas 2022
Becoming the Painting 2022
Becoming the Life Drawing 2021// The Artists Body
Manufactured Body Language 2019
Remains 2019 (Thinking through the Body)
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