Warning Woman 1981
42cm. X 56cm. 16.5in. X 22in
BFK Rives
Monoprint
Exhibition
Unpaid Labour, 2015, Art Gallery of Burlington solo exhibition
Notes
The upper fork and spoon have been off-set onto the paper. The black background was relief printed. The central photographic image was heat transferred to the BFK Rives rag paper.
This print was produced in the same way as the similar print “Fork and Spoon Woman”.
In the central photographic image the fork and spoon are arranged across the face in a skull and crossbones configuration to resemble the warning on a poison container. Warnings about the deadly effects of housework have surfaced in other ways. Professor Paul Hiebert of the University of Manitoba, invented a fictitious poet called Sarah Binks, who wrote of the unhappy farmer’s wife who drank the poisonous Paris Green insect spray.
Shortening Woman