Like Adnams, Dawn Woolley’s still-life work draws inspiration from everyday objects and materials brought together to create unsettling scenes. These still-life combinations give the objects a surreal and mysterious life of their own – a description that is used in relation to the natural objects that feature in Adnams’ paintings. In Memorials old meat is arranged among the party hats and crockery, signaling the end of the consumer party. The objects describe the idealized, gendered, ageing body: time cannot be conquered and so the body sags and ages. To evoke the idea of a memorial to a lost object the photographs are installed leaning against the gallery wall propped up by two deflated balloons.
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