Contour States

British artist Samantha Donnelly presents her exhibition of representations of the human form in media. The strong shapes and colours manipulated out of everyday objects: buttons, lace, acrylic nails and false eyelashes add another dimension to the sculptures portraying the objectification of women in the mass produced sexualised and generic forms of mannequins. So the blurb says.

The images are vivid, the lines and structure of the sculptures have a powerful impact on the eye though the exact concept behind each piece requires peering at them intently trying to work out what represents which bit of the female form.

Donnelly’s success comes in her ability to transform the simplest objects into something that logically shouldn’t be aesthetically pleasing, but is. The colours don’t appear to have any lineage to them per piece yet each works as an individual structure as well as the exhibition as a whole.