Kate Davis : Not Just the Perfect Moments

4 Dec 2012-2 Feb 2013

Overview

A solo exhibition of new commissioned work by Glasgow-based artist Kate Davis. Questioning how to bear witness to the complexities of the past, Davis’s artwork is an attempt to reconsider what certain histories could look, sound and feel like. Focusing on ideologies perpetuated through certain approaches to the teaching and viewing of drawing, Not Just the Perfect Moments is an attempt, informed by the art and writings of Jo Spence, and by the actions of militant suffragette Mary Raleigh Richardson, to re-examine and unpick some of the ways in which representational practices, such as drawing, have constructed and complicated perceptions of the female body.