Industrial Domestic 2009
Industrial/Domestic
At this time, in the 21st Century it’s not unusual to find the traditional gender roles blurred. Women quite often earn more than their male partner, we have stay at home dads, gay marriages and parenting, and a huge number of single parent families where the single parent fulfils both gender roles.
The domestic arrangement and designs in my installation refer back to an earlier time of the Arts and Crafts Movement in New Zealand (1870 – 1940) where women were mostly excluded from the more traditionally ‘masculine’ roles of engineering, architecture etc. By comparing and contrasting ideas and materials I have pulled together industrial and domestic life as well as relationships of strong and delicate, ornament and function, masculine and feminine.
Trish Clarke 2009
Currently at Kaipara Coast Sculpture Gardens. Just north of Auckland
http://www.sculpturegardens.co.nz/
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Trish Clarkeme - I'm a visual Artist working in Plasma Cut Aluminium.
I find that my art responds to my immediate environment, either by subject matter or by the materials used. I have done bodies of work that relate to my two young children, paintings and sculpture of toys etc. My work has also responded to the natural environment. I am currently working on a body of work looking at gender roles and domesticality.
Me: http://www.trishclarkevisual.blogspot.com
Work: http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/tags/northland
