www.hayleylock.com
Tel: 0044 (0)7892 905016
email: hayleylock@tiscali.co.uk
blog: http://countsandnuonces.blogspot.com/
Artist and maker
holy moley 2009
My latest work
'holy moley' from a series titled
'Secret Lady Saints'
a mix of french neoneo classical, folklore, slang and alternative secret societies
as well as the imaginary
My practice is based on reproduction, reconfiguration and souvenirs. The reproductions I create focus on entwining existing works and objects with aspects of life in modern day society. My practice questions taste and how it is formed socially through high and low culture as well as through popular and unpopular routes of viewing.
This approach has focused my interests towards hierarchical and fantastical subjects of monarchy and noble folk, dwarfism, bearded ladies, the obese, the anorexic and the deformed. I have also involved mechanical elements to my work with rotating appendages, girls with things to show up their skirts and other socially sensitive prohibitions.
My practice has a tendency to be figurative within its subject of reworking old works, suggesting a darker side to the seductiveness of beauty whilst disrupting the real.
