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Artworks
Liv FONTAINE British, b. 1989
A Lovely Life, 2020Pen and pencil on paper29.7 x 21 cmGrowing up in the port town of Southampton, Fontaine has said that her biggest regret in life is that she doesn’t work on the sea. Drawing on influence of Feminist...Growing up in the port town of Southampton, Fontaine has said that her biggest regret in life is that she doesn’t work on the sea. Drawing on influence of Feminist art practices of the 60s and 70s, A Lovely Life is a surrealist portrait of a woman trapped in the narrative of a domestic housewife, hanging between two realms with an iron for a head tied at the neck and bound to a tree by a serpent. To her left, a petrified forest scene and to her right, a ship sinks underneath an apple pie sun.
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