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Hidden Woman, Angie Phillip (Aja)

Hidden Woman - Angie Phillip (Aja)

I make my head as I used to,
out of a paper bag,
pull it down to the collarbone,

......... ...........

With this new head, the body now
stretched like a stocking and exhausted could
dance again; if I made a

tongue I could sing.

from 'A Paper Bag' by Margaret Atwood

The pictures and poems represent an exploration of the hidden woman and those with whom she interacts.

The paintings show woman, who is not seen, or only partially seen, by society. Woman is forced to hide because of the roles she has to play. She must hide in order to function. Her roles can be sometimes enjoyable but more frequently painful and sometimes destructive. She can be seen as both victim and manipulator, tormented and temptress, goddess and slut. Somehow she has to survive.

Woman is daughter, sister, mother, lover but most importantly she is herself. She is frequently marvellous. She is an individual, a person with her own identity, despite the fact that, from childhood onwards, she is partially or totally hidden by the powerful female roles by which society defines and confines her.

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This was a collaborative project where poems were written by Matt Black, Sandra Meredith, Chuma Nwokolo Jnr & Jane Spiro in response to the pictures of Angie Phillip (Aja Gap), Itsuki Matayoshi and Dai Harding.

Hidden Woman Paintings Slideshow

Hidden Woman Paintings

Untitled22 & Birth poem

Long Ago, Hand & Eye

Hidden Woman, Torso

Smile, Woman & Child

Bird, Untitled4, Orange

Blue Woman 2 & Jane Roberts poem

Pumpkin, Falling Apples

Disappearance & Elegy prose poem

Metamorphosis 2 & Eyes poem

Blue Woman 1, Raft

Hidden Woman Drawings Slideshow

Hidden Woman Drawings

Dancer, Woman No 1

Egg, Female

Dress & Dress poem

Regard, Metamorphosis 1

Grounded, Statue2

Aja (Angie Phillip) and Poems by Sandra Meredith, Chuma Nwokolo, Jane Spiro

Hidden Woman

1997 - 2007

Time and Place

1998 - 2008

Woman Looking Out

1998 - 2008

Escape & Return

2008 -

Sins & Virtues

2009 -

Glassworks

Abstracts

1997 -

Small Portraits

1997 -

 

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