ANGELA MADDOCK
Mothers are Wolves
This body of work explores the transitional space between mother and child as described by the paediatrician and psychoanalyst, Donald Winnicott: a holding space, a place of nurturing and attachment, but also one of greed, obsession, and desire. In Mothers are Wolves Maddock plays with the material function of scissors to suggest a playful space can also be formless, overwhelming, and potentially smothering. Scissors enable separation, and describe the process of shaping ourselves, giving form to the concept of being an individual. Scissors that fail are troublesome things.
Showing as part of Social Fabric.
