In
2000, the dresses started out as a workshop based piece
with young women in Kirkby, Merseyside. The idea was to
create an artwork based on the general perception of the
female body, and to explore where we got those notions from.
We considered the female body as a commodity to be collected,
controlled, contained. This engaged with the idea of the
miniature and the gigantic (the ob-scene – as over
sized women can be thought of).
Playing
on the magic numbers that always crop up in fairytales,
we came up with 7 dresses exploring themes of the Supermodel,
Marilyn Monroe (the Tragic Blonde), Maternity, Cinderella,
the Bride, the Sybil, the Child (Alice).
