heat long last it’s here! it took some work to get it here, but its here and I couldn’t be happier with it. wonderfully illustrated by Juan Nieto (thedeargrandson)
Order will ship Feb 5th. this is a small first run so if you don’t wanna miss out place your order.
As part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, performance and installation artist Sue Austin created this series in which she—in her self-propelled underwater wheelchair—explored the magnificence of the underwater world, aiming to generate a widespread public debate about the nature and value of contemporary arts practice shaped by the experience of disability.
Artist’s statement:
“My studio practice has, for sometime, centred around finding ways to understand and represent my embodied experience as a wheelchair user, opening up profound issues about methods of self-representation and the power of self-narration in challenging the nexus of power and control that created the ‘disabled’ as other.”
The lurking creatures of Polkip’s imagination blend distinct hues, negative space, and just a hint of knowing something you don’t to coalesce into these ethereal animals. Prints available at Society6.