All of Your Women and Some of Mine

All of Your Women and Some of Mine was an installation featuring paintings, prints and furnishings which playfully but critically engaged with the representation of women in canonical Modernist painting traditions. The installation drew attention to the way “the female form”, as an abstract concept, is frequently deployed in these largely white, male, heteronormative painting practices, but at a remove from the reality of individual women’s bodies and experiences. The work examined the way women’s bodies, particularly in traditions of the nude, are what is at stake in these practices; individual women’s bodies are frequently displaced in the rhetoric of avant-gardism, where the male master translates specific female bodies into a generalised (experimental) formal play.