Unctuous Between Fingers, 2019
Harmonic Anatomies / Wet Mouths, 2019
Tentacular Thinking, 2018
A cap, like water, transparent, fluid yet with definite body, 2017-18
The Stones talk to her, 2017
Un Waive Edge Ground, 2015
On Frottage (Part I), 2015
Add Utter Rut, 2015
An Eye, An Arch, A Bridge, 2014
Frottage with IHF and JC, 2014
It Has Been Found Again, 2014
Practice, 2013
As Furniture, As Discipline, 2013
Word Chords, 2013
Ear Training/ Rhythm / Notation, 2013
Tuning Up, 2013
Last Orders..., 2012
Untitled (Portraits), 2011
Welcome Drinks, 2011
Toast, 2010
As Furniture, As Discipline, 2013
From, In the boom of the tingling strings (solo exhibition) PCA, Plymouth
video (3min 42 sec)
As Furniture, As Discipline is a song essay performed to camera by the artist’s mother, sisters and nieces. The melody is adapted from ‘I Love You Truly’, (Carrie Jacobs-Bond, 1913), the first song written by a woman to sell over 1 million copies of sheet music. The lyrics, written by the artist, explore female identity and piano playing - an activity that could be perceived as both oppressive and emancipative in the 19/20th century.
The sentimental tune and the hymn-like quality of the lyrics contrasts with the modern context and obvious effort and discomfort of the performers. Both humorous and strange in its domesticity, the video poses questions about the place of amateur music making within the home, family relationships and gender-specific activities.