Fetish Project
My ongoing practice explores objectification and voyeuristic sexual pleasure and considers the question ‘when does sexual desire and voyeurism become too much – when do we draw the line with art?’ My research focuses on the idea of the male gaze and the pleasure gained from looking, the relationship human beings place on objects that form sexual desires and how this is linked to fetish tendencies. My work is currently exploring the idea of fetishism and how the attraction to objects feeds sexual pleasure and perversion, the idea of looking and voyeurism. The aim is to explore how someone gains sexual pleasure from something outside of the norm and to ask the question when does art stop being art and becomes perversion and pornography.
Bicurious George
Medium: Restructured Mannequin, Torso, Electrics, Lights and Handmade Leather Garments.
Mannequins are the base of many nude paintings dating back to 1461, due to their mobility which allowed them to be positioned or held in a pose for extended periods. A Agalmatophilia fetish, is the sexual attraction to a statue, mannequin or doll. It is relevant in love and fantasy and fetish encounters of emotional and physical connection for those who have difficulty in connecting with another human being.
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Object of desire
Medium: restructured mannequin torso, electrics, lights, underwear and feather lampshade. This was a metaphor, for women viewed for sexual pleasure exploring the concept of Laura Mulvey's (1975) 'Male gaze.'
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Peepshow box
Medium: Wooden box painted and covered in leather, aluminium peep holes, steel coin slot, iPad with photographic display, mannequin legs on metal stand and mannequin arms encasing the box.
'Peeping Tom' was designed to provide entertainment of a voyeuristic act
voyeurism - observing unsuspecting nude individuals or individuals disrobing or engaging in sexual activity.
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Book of desire
Medium: Oil paint on canvas.
Experimenting with objects that could be perceived as a sexualised representation of the human form, focused on female genitalia, to create arousal or romantic attraction. This is exhibited in book of desire painting of a hand inserted into and holding the pages of a book.
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Bondage
Medium: Oil paint on canvas and wool
Connection with dominance, submission and sadomasochism which gives a person the feeling of being restrained and submissive, allowing the feeling of transfer of control and power, and visual pleasure.
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The 'Male Gaze'
Medium: Photograph
Objectifying a body, a body displayed as an object, representation of the male gaze, the body is the subject/object to be gazed upon cutting the head completely ignores the that the 'torso' belongs to a person, an individual with feelings and an identity.
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Sex Chair
Medium: Wooden chair, PVC covering, handmade leather straps, cuffs wrists and ankles, leather stud work.
Created for an example of fetish play and commonly referred to as “position enhancing furniture”. Sex chair fetishism is associated with sexual arousal associated with non-living objects and bondage.
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Fetish film
Film, Caught on Camera
Medium, silent film consisting of live models, mannequins, fetish objects and clothing.
Fetish film, representation of sexual or romantic attraction focused on particular inanimate object and fetish acts, flashing between scenes, recorded in a black room studio.
Sorry, this film is no longer available.
