Have you ever noticed just how figurative trees can be? Have you ever seen the faces, torsos in your photographs, limbs that you didn’t discover until you looked at them back home? Some are astonishingly realistic so no wonder (see Forest) that many myths, legends and fairy tales take you to the deepest, darkest forest. […]
‘Grimm Girls: Picturing the Princes’ Sussex Folklore and Fairy Tale Symposium – University of Chichester 25.11.13
There is currently an exhibition at the Otter Gallery at the Uni – ‘Grimm Girls: Picturing the ‘Princess’. It’s full of books and illustrations, images that children gazed at whilst someone read to them, stories full of witches, castles, forests, princesses and heroes. What was missing was art inspired by these tales, the kind of […]