I, object is a practice-based PhD exhibition using clay and illustration to explore Western women’s body image. It consists of two spaces: one features the community table dressed with objects made by the women involved in the research and me. They intend to further critical conversations around cultural body image pressures and influences, and how the social construct of body image affects us all in different ways. The foyer area exhibits autoethnographic object illustrations of my personal experience, curated in my reimagined childhood home. This highlights how this personal space is also shaped by broader cultural discourse on body image.
The citations for the object illustrations are available in the figurative and liminal sections of this website. All photographs and artwork on this website (and the associated thesis) are taken by and are the copyright of the author unless stated otherwise. The copyright of the photographs of the original object illustrations and paper illustrations published on this website (and the associated thesis) remains with the author, and permission must be obtained to reproduce any image for non-commercial or commercial use. The illustrator-author retains copyright of participant objects, but does not claim authorship. Reproducing images of participant objects is not permitted.
I, object exhibition, 22nd-27th May 2023, Belfast School of Art, Belfast. Photographs © Beverley Irving-Edwards.
