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Carys Reilly-Whitehouse

MA work

MA work

  • 'Psychical pain that is remembered in waking consciousness still provokes a lachrymal secretion long after the event'

    'Psychical pain that is remembered in waking consciousness still provokes a lachrymal secretion long after the event', Carys Reilly-Whitehouse 2017
    Photography with Mixed Media
    297 cm x 420 cm | Photographer: Carys Reilly-Whitehouse

  • 'Rest in the treatment of Nervous Disease (Warp Yarn Strength Test)

    'Rest in the treatment of Nervous Disease (Warp Yarn Strength Test), Carys Reilly-Whitehouse 2017
    Photography, Digital Media
    107 cm x 50 cm | Photographer: Carys Reilly-Whitehouse

  • 'The Motor Phenomenon of hysterical attacks can be interpreted partly as universal forms of reaction appropriate to the affect accompanying the memory, partly as a direct expression of these memories'

    'The Motor Phenomenon of hysterical attacks can be interpreted partly as universal forms of reaction appropriate to the affect accompanying the memory, partly as a direct expression of these memories', Carys Reilly-Whitehouse 2017
    Photography, Digital Performance with Found Objects
    297 cm x 420 cm | Photographer: Carys Reilly-Whitehouse

  • Reversible Hysteria Hat

    Reversible Hysteria Hat, Carys Reilly-Whitehouse 2016
    Sculpture, Photography, Digital Performance
    297 cm x 420 cm | Photographer: Carys Reilly-Whitehouse

  • 'For some reason, the act of bathing, or even being bathed, is mysteriously fatiguing to some invalids'

    'For some reason, the act of bathing, or even being bathed, is mysteriously fatiguing to some invalids', Carys Reilly-Whitehouse 2017
    Photography
    297 cm x 420 cm | Photographer: Carys Reilly-Whitehouse

  • 'This hypnoid consciousness has obtained control of the subject’s whole existence'

    'This hypnoid consciousness has obtained control of the subject’s whole existence', Carys Reilly-Whitehouse 2017
    Photography, Digital Collage
    297 cm x 420 cm | Photographer: Carys Reilly-Whitehouse

The anatomy of 'Fragile' and 'Unconventional' Women

My Final Major project has been a year-long personal narrative exploration of historical psychoanalytic theories of weave, using digital performance to analyse the construction of contemporary femininity and mental illness on social media. Sculptural costume pieces applied to the body facilitate performance as a means of research to critique and often ridicule historical and current psychiatric objectification and pathologisation of the female body and mind. The concept of the body as both the material and the maker within the creation process of weave forms the basis of my use of the body as my primary tool of research-driven practice.


Programme
Textiles

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Design

    Programme

    MA Textiles, 2017

    Specialism

    weave

  • Working conceptually with a range of mediums including sculpture, photography and digital performance, my research-driven projects typically explore narratives of contemporary constructs of femininity and psychology.

  • Degrees

  • BA Fashion And Textiles, Winchester School Of Art, 2015

  • Experience

  • Intern, Agent Provocateur, London, 2012; Intern, Stella Mccartney, London, 2012

  • Exhibitions

  • WSA Degree Show Exhibition, WSA Gallery, Winchester, 2015; WSA Degree Show, Barge House, London, 2015; (NO) BODY, Hockney Gallery, London, 2016; OTHER, RCA Entrance Gallery, London, 2016; Bad Art, Bones And Pearle, London, 2016; SHE, Ugly Duck, London, 2016; SHE, Sao La Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2016; SHE, LPM Gallery, Austin, Texas, 2016; SHE Book Launch Exhibition, Unit 5 Gallery, London, 2016; Muriel, Assembley House, Leeds, 2016; 9x15, Hockney Gallery, London, 2017

  • Awards

  • RCA Progression award from WSA, 2015

  • Publications

  • Caitlin Hinshelwood, 'Featuring the work of Woven Textiles student Carys Whitehouse', Make Future, 2015; 'RCA', RCA Feminist Society Launches with Inaugural 'OTHER' Exhibition, Royal College Of Art News and Events, 2016; Megan Elizabeth, 'The Hermit, The Waif, The Witch and The Queen', 'This Space', 2016; SHE (book), 2016

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