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'Mona's Monthly'

'Mona's Monthly'

Another piece inspired by 'Taxation' on Feminine health products as considered Luxury Items...This is what I believe to be a Luxury Item!!!

Limited Edition
Image on Panty Pad/Velvet/Gilded Frame
20cm x 20cm
Edition of 5

Introduction

Hello and welcome....

Thankyou for coming along to check out my work. There is work here that belongs to my HIV Based Collection titled 'The Museum of the loss of Practicality + other Peculiarities!!!'

These pieces sometimes started out as Useful Readymades...I rendered them useless in that they are no longer practical but they have been reborn into ornately alluring and sometimes a little vulgar and original  'One Offs'....

I am constantly coming up with new ways to represent ideas and materials to use....some work as well in the flesh as they did from my head to the piece of paper and then sometimes they take a few more tweaks to get just right.

Constantly evolving as life does.

The Other collection of work is based on TAXATION on Feminine Health Products...as they are classed as Luxury items!!!

Angered by this I decided to make Luxury items out of the products.

I hope you have enjoyed the visit and please come again.

Art is Life, Life is Art

 

I am currently working on a HUGE project 'The RED RIBBON DRESS' this is a remake of a piece of work made back in 2004/5. The original piece was a sculptural work and unfortunately due to being moved around for Exhibitions it got damaged so no longer exists but I have been able to salvage a few of the original Red Ribbons which will now be attached to the Dress. The Dress is to raise awareness and is for people to dedicate each of the Ribbons to someone they know who mave have died due to HIV/AIDS or for someone they know living with this disease or even themselves. Also for the public to write as many dedications as possible. This is a Legacy piece of work that highlights and remembers those who have died and to the many still surviving this ugly disease and also to remind everyone how this disease can infect/affect any one of us!

These dedications are in the form of a piece of card 3x3" with the Name and any message. All these messages/dedications are to be put into a book that will accompany the Dress when it is being exhibited. The book is based on one of the original Quilt Panels obviously not six foot by 3 foot but 60x30cm. It is a Portrait of many names/not faces but to keep these names alive.

If you are intersted in dedicating a Name and want more information, then feel free to contact me and I will get back to you with details asap.

I have stitched 4558 Red individual Ribbons so far and will continue as once the Dress is made ready for the application of these ribbons, I know for full impact that many more will be called upon as in this case 'Less is Definately not More!!!'

Once this Dress is completed It is hoped that it will be exhibited around the Country.

March 2012

Mandy Webb

Statement

My work involves a lot about my personal experiences of living as an HIV Positive woman and the ignorance I have encountered. Thoughtless, ignorant remarks have sometimes upset and angered me but have also inspired me to create art work to raise awareness of this disease.

I have been inspired by Marcel Duchamp and Meret Oppenheim and their use of 'Readymades'. I wanted to go that little bit further and adorn items that have either been issued personally to myself via the health service and sometimes totally impractical!

The pieces I create are often bright and decorative from a distance but on getting up close reveal a deeper and darker meaning pertaining to the mediums I have used. Some people may feel a little uncomfortable in their prescence...Often very similar to the reaction I get when I disclose my HIV Positive status.

Not only is my work about my HIV Positive status. I have another collection of work that has been inspired by Taxation on Feminine Sanitary Products as these are classed as 'LUXURY' items when in fact they are a Neccessity!!! Many of the pieces have actually been made from Panty Pads and been turned into 'LUXURY' Products!!! Still thought provoking and always with a little dark Humour attached.

 

Biography

Mandy Webb B.A

19 Byerley Road, Fratton, Portsmouth PO1 5AX. 

Tel: 07815 140465. E-mail: mandywebbb@yahoo.co.uk

 

 

Solo Show

 

2010         The Museum of The Loss of Practicality+Other Peculiarities (the Next Chapter)

                 Gallery Art Space. Portsmouth

2010         The Saint Valentines Day Massacre. Gallery Art Space. Portsmouth

2008         The Museum of The Loss of Practicality+Other Peculiarities. Gallery Art Space

                 Portsmouth

 

 

 

 2011                DEBUT Contemporary Gallery. Nottinghill. London

 2011                'Flora,Flora'.   Kings Theatre. Southsea

 

2010                'The Signature Art Awards'

                         Degree.com Gallery.London

 

2010                '100 Artists For Pride' Brighton

2010                'Lakeside' Portsmouth

2010                'Left In Vision 4', University of London

2010                'Art Space Portsmouth 30th Anniversary' Portsmouth

2010                ‘Diversity’ (One World) University of Portsmouth

2010                ‘Facebook Friends’, Art House 2. Havant

2009                ‘Art in Mind’, The Brick Lane Gallery. London

2009                ‘Left in Vision 3’, University of London

2009                ‘C-R-A-C-K’ MarieLloydBar, Hackney Empire

                         London

2009                'Alumni' University of Portsmouth

2009                'Arts Trail' HaylingIsland

2008                ‘When it’s gone, it’s gone’ (Degree Show),

                        University of Portsmouth

2007                'Ox jam', Castle fields, Portsmouth

·         Organised, promoted, curated a show of over 30 local artists, as well as exhibiting

2007                'Arts Trail', HaylingIsland

2006                ‘Positive Pictures’ SpinnakerTower, Portsmouth

2006                ‘Positive Pictures’ Cathedral of Portsmouth

2005                'World Aids Day'  SouthamptonArtGallery

 

Awards

 

2008                Fine Art Graduate Award. University of Portsmouth.

 

 

 

University of Portsmouth

2004-2005       Access to Art, Design & Media, University of Portsmouth

2003-2004       City & Guilds: Interior Design, HighburyCollege, Portsmouth

·         Scaled Drawings (elevations & floor plans), Working to Proposals

1998-2000              BTEC: Restoration & Decorative Arts

·         Faux Finishing, Gilding, Carpentry

 

 

 

Group Shows