Cast in bronze from fifteen foraged wild apples, this piece draws attention to their strangeness and imperfection. Each apple is unique, subverting the accepted ideal of the standardized, perfect apple.
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Femininity Embroidered (Series)
Femininity Embroidered is an exploration between the societal associations of what is considered to be masculine and feminine labour. Through the organic burnout process, Donoghue-Stanford’s embroidered “woman’s work” is transformed and re-birthed into bronze, casted into immortality. The words stitched into each piece are absurd synonyms of the word Femininity. In bronze, the words have …
Horse Chestnut
Modelled in wax and cast in bronze, this piece is a monument to overlooked natural objects and it examines the apparent value of a found horse chestnut.
