Studio tutorial - Critical discources and encounters RN / The Robber Bride and Female Rage

Reviewed the abstract and considered how to progress work alongside other responsibilities.

Spent some time organising notes and dates to focus on getting a body of work for April's Interim exhibition

RN: Consider working back from your encounter with the audience. They need to find sense in it. How can my paintings stick in someones mind?

• Identify with portraits of womens female rage - relatable - inspiring - energising 
• Female rage in terms of uninhibited refusal to remain silent.

Considering the female in a different way after reading the Robber Bride Margaret Atwood - 3 female characters who represent post feminist values and 1 antiheroine who represents post feminist individualism.

See article (restricted access via Staffs instiution)

Eve, Mary, Veiled venus are all betrayals of females in terms of feminist values - sister hood, loyalty and unity. 

Zenia is a representation of that women that breaks the code and shits on other women - but is also a broken women herself - the victim who can't trust men or women - who thinks she can manipulate everything but runs out of rope.

Looked at women who rage - This takes me back to non compliant (witch) 

We're all ok (sisters) until circumstances dictate that we're not. (rage) Considering the fall out - portraits of women who rage and women who are there for them. 

article: see section:  (nb: this image and this article relates to article)

What makes female rage distinct from ‘angry women’ is the fact that it’s tied to a much wider issue. A woman’s anger can be resolved (Judith, for instance, can kill Holofernes) but female rage cannot. Female rage is innately connected to the experience of being a woman, and that’s never going away. So the famous quotation from Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag goes:

Women are born with pain built in. It’s our physical destiny — period pains, sore boobs, childbirth. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don’t. They have to seek it out. They invent all these gods and demons and things so they can feel guilty about things, which is something we do very well on our own. And then they create wars so they can feel things and touch each other, and when there aren’t any wars, they can play rugby.

This has also made me reconsider the plurality of the Veiled Venus sculpture - not just in terms of people reading it as sexual or complicit but is there an element of female rage in there? It's certainly distruptive.? 

REPORT: Female rage feels like a bit of a turning point - it sets me back on course in relation to female experience and the witch but gives me a focus that I can explore in portraiture. (The chapter not the novel as suggested by BN today ) It lets me explore expression, behaviour and reaction which I can connect with audiences through.