mandy webb

About the artist

mandy webb
mandy webb
mandy webb

Sculpture, Installation

Statement

My work involves a lot about my personal experiences of living as an HIV Positive woman and the ignorance I have encountered. Thoughtless, ignorant remarks have sometimes upset and angered me but have also inspired me to create art work to raise awareness of this disease.

I have been inspired by Marcel Duchamp and Meret Oppenheim and their use of 'Readymades'. I wanted to go that little bit further and adorn items that have either been issued personally to myself via the health service and sometimes totally impractical!

The pieces I create are often bright and decorative from a distance but on getting up close reveal a deeper and darker meaning pertaining to the mediums I have used. Some people may feel a little uncomfortable in their prescence...Often very similar to the reaction I get when I disclose my HIV Positive status.

Not only is my work about my HIV Positive status. I have another collection of work that has been inspired by Taxation on Feminine Sanitary Products as these are classed as 'LUXURY' items when in fact they are a Neccessity!!! Many of the pieces have actually been made from Panty Pads and been turned into 'LUXURY' Products!!! Still thought provoking and always with a little dark Humour attached.

 

Biography

Mandy Webb B.A

19 Byerley Road, Fratton, Portsmouth PO1 5AX. 

Tel: 07815 140465. E-mail: mandywebbb@yahoo.co.uk

 

 

Solo Show

 

2010         The Museum of The Loss of Practicality+Other Peculiarities (the Next Chapter)

                 Gallery Art Space. Portsmouth

2010         The Saint Valentines Day Massacre. Gallery Art Space. Portsmouth

2008         The Museum of The Loss of Practicality+Other Peculiarities. Gallery Art Space

                 Portsmouth

 

 

 

 2011                DEBUT Contemporary Gallery. Nottinghill. London

 2011                'Flora,Flora'.   Kings Theatre. Southsea

 

2010                'The Signature Art Awards'

                         Degree.com Gallery.London

 

2010                '100 Artists For Pride' Brighton

2010                'Lakeside' Portsmouth

2010                'Left In Vision 4', University of London

2010                'Art Space Portsmouth 30th Anniversary' Portsmouth

2010                ‘Diversity’ (One World) University of Portsmouth

2010                ‘Facebook Friends’, Art House 2. Havant

2009                ‘Art in Mind’, The Brick Lane Gallery. London

2009                ‘Left in Vision 3’, University of London

2009                ‘C-R-A-C-K’ MarieLloydBar, Hackney Empire

                         London

2009                'Alumni' University of Portsmouth

2009                'Arts Trail' HaylingIsland

2008                ‘When it’s gone, it’s gone’ (Degree Show),

                        University of Portsmouth

2007                'Ox jam', Castle fields, Portsmouth

·         Organised, promoted, curated a show of over 30 local artists, as well as exhibiting

2007                'Arts Trail', HaylingIsland

2006                ‘Positive Pictures’ SpinnakerTower, Portsmouth

2006                ‘Positive Pictures’ Cathedral of Portsmouth

2005                'World Aids Day'  SouthamptonArtGallery

 

Awards

 

2008                Fine Art Graduate Award. University of Portsmouth.

 

 

 

University of Portsmouth

2004-2005       Access to Art, Design & Media, University of Portsmouth

2003-2004       City & Guilds: Interior Design, HighburyCollege, Portsmouth

·         Scaled Drawings (elevations & floor plans), Working to Proposals

1998-2000              BTEC: Restoration & Decorative Arts

·         Faux Finishing, Gilding, Carpentry

 

 

 

Group Shows

Exhibition History

2008  'The Museum Of The Loss Of Practicality+Other Peculiarities!'
 
 

 

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