Art in Mind
The Brick Lane Gallery
196 Brick Lane
London E1 6SA
7th to 20th December 2010
26 September to 14th November 2009
1215 Gallery
North Lodge
Windsor Rd, Old Windsor, Windsor, SL4
17 – 28 June 2009
gallery singular
the passageway
friday st (between no.’s 2 and 4)
henley on thames
RG9 1AH
daily during daylight hours
artspace
barn galleries
aston
henley on thames
oxfordshire
RG9 3DX
2 – 25 may 2009
10 am to 5 pm
birtley sculpture garden
birtley house
bramley
guildford
GU5 0LB
18 april – 31 may 2009
the gallery
norden farm centre for the arts
maidenhead
may 14 to june 15
henley festival
henley on thames
july 9 to 13
mirror gallery
southhill park arts centre
bracknell
september 20 to november 9
Trisha Crocker’s sculpture portrays bodies of difference. Her army of clay and bronze ladies comes in different levels of abstraction and has multiple body shapes and colours, celebrating a variety of female forms and cultures. There is no hierarchy of class or race between these figures. The figures have small heads, but their facial expressions are strong. As Penny Davis puts it: “When viewing the Army, the viewer strains to look at the expressions of the women in an attempt to find their souls.” 1
Following the traces of the feminist cultural radicalism, Crocker’s work insists on the fundamental difference between man and woman. These sculptures articulate essential womanhood as a powerful and confident experience that is identified with being a woman in a feminine body. When Crocker’s figures are presented together as a group of work, the placement of the figures is essential. The ladies move away from the static qualities of art objects and become to suggest an organic growth. They form a collaborative army of women that is a powerful and liberating experience.
Dr Outi Remes, 2010
Outi Remes is a curator and art historian of contemporary and live art. She is the Head of Exhibitions at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire, and also sessionally lectures on exhibition studies and modern & contemporary art at Birkbeck College, the University of London.
1 P. Davis, “Army of Women by Trisha Crocker”, review of the exhibition at South Hill Park” in a-n Interface, 2008.
For purchases or to discuss commissions contact: Trisha Crocker