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Porcelain figurines present romantic notions of femininity as they politely pose on the mantelpiece, or, find themselves basking in the twinkling light of your grandmothers display cabinet. Like so many expressions of the ideal female, these nostalgic figures illustrate posed perfection and all the things little girls should aspire to be. Jessica Harrison, a sculptor living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland, disrupts these polished found objects and subverts their presented ideals through…

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Painted Ladies and Broken Figurines: The dark feminist art of Jessica Harrison | Dangerous Minds Jessica Harrison Porcelain, Organ Art, Jessica Harrison, Feminist Artist, Vintage Porcelain Dolls, Porcelain Figures, Ceramic Figures, Feminist Art, Pop Surrealism

There must have been thousands of these figurines perched on shelves, mantelpieces and end tables in suburban households across the land. I know my grandmother had about half-a-dozen of these porcelain figurines of fair-skinned women lifting the hem of their dresses that mysteriously billowed like a sail from some absent breeze. Some held poesies or baskets crammed with yellow daffodils and roses. They were difficult to keep clean. Dust clung limpet-like in tufts. My grandmother accidentally…

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