About
Tallulah Fenton is a BA (Hons) Fine Art student at Kingston School of Art and is based in London. Her practice centers around girlhood, explored through a variety of mediums with recurring motifs of fragmented bodies and emptied garments. By avoiding complete portraits, the representations avoid fixed narratives of femininity, play with anonymity and the partial and shifting nature of childhood recollection; allowing viewers to inhabit the work through their own recollections.
Operating between nostalgia and unease, the works reconstruct the visual language of girlhood through fragmented forms, altered scale, and materially charged objects. Familiar items become estranged through enlargement, repetition, and absence, reflecting the instability of childhood memory and the shifting relationship between body, space, and identity.
The variety of materials, including jesmonite, porcelain, wax, photography and oil painting, including found objects, reflect a varied and experimental practice that deals with material histories and unexpected visual and textual contrasts. Scale repeatedly slips between the miniature and monumental; informed by an interest in children’s literature, particularly Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Ordinary objects are reconstructed and estranged, evoking the psychological effects of micropsia and macropsia and exploring the elastic and disorientating spatial logic of childhood.
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