Unruly Bodies

About

Liberty Antonia works with mediums of drawing, text and moving image to explore issues of 21st century body politics, with a focus on the experience of living in a large femme body in a photo-shopped world. Liberty uses characters, radical softness & raw playfulness to discuss themes of abjection, vulnerability, queerness, femininity, food, the erotic & the psycho-sexual. In her McDonalds Series she utilises McDonald’s packaging as a canvas to make public the discarded, and often purposefully secretive, provocative object. Liberty explores the emotions & morality attached to its consumption, especially toward fat people. These drawing works are built in layers of text and mark-making; with words hidden and revealed within its structure, the soft figures enclosed inside condiment-coloured frames, exposing their vulnerability and their rage on paper made delicate from being stretched, painted & torn.

Liberty Antonia is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, the founder of artist film night MicroActs, and their artist research explores the portrayal of fat bodies & the power of subjectivity within art practice.

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Fenn Eddy-Gardiner’s drawing practice explores her lived experience as a person living with ADHD, after her diagnosis in 2018. Fenn notes that drawing has always been a form of escape and control, in a mind and world where she felt that she had none. What began as a way to bring a little joy to herself has become a significant part of her practice, with drawing taking prominence in her graduate show at Camberwell College of Arts in 2021. 

Fenn’s unfiltered and honest works continue to explore her struggles with both ADHD and mental health difficulties. Combining drawing, installation and personal objects, Fenn’s insights challenge stereotypes of ADHD by providing raw depictions of the scope of how the condition can affect a person. Fenn sees the work as “a way to dissect my mind: to display my mind and body, the good and the bad, the fun and the not so fun.”

Fenn Eddy-Gardiner was born in South London before spending her early teens in South Wales. She graduated from UAL Camberwell College of Arts in 2021 with a BA in Fine Art Photography.

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