Internal Beauty Painting

“Shemilt’s powerful use of the body questions the perception, representation and objectification of female identity and the body. Her work challenges society at large and an art system that had relegated women artists to the margins. In the 1970’s, as the second wave feminists in the UK were battling for equality, pacifism, ecology and labour rights, Shemilt was exploring these topics to fight the marginalisation of women in art.” – Dr Laura Leuzzi The art historian and theorist Alan Woods: "Her work initially focused on installation, the various printmaking media were used in an attempt to continue and develop the installations by other means. If the event is inevitably lost, a new artwork is launched from it, and as themes and subjects occur and re-occur, their re-generation might usefully be imagined as located within an extended family of images" This painting is from a series of works collectively known as "Behind Appearance" in various media including screenprints, oil paitings, etchings. They all dealt with anatomical details of the human body, sometimes the artist's own. This painting was incomplete in 1989 and not exhibited, but the artist revisted it in early 2022.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:37 W x 44.9 H x 11.8 D in

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