Artist Amanda Harker defies expectations
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Amanda Harker likes to shock, using traditional children’s stories, lace, and embroidery to defy expectations. The viewer, lulled into thinking they are looking at something decorative and ornate, is confronted instead with ideas of obscenity and pornography. In her words, her work “mirrors the multi-layered perceptions of women”.
Finger
Part of a series of cross-stitch embroidery based on found graffiti
Amy is
Graffiti takes on a new light in cross-stitch form.
Suck
Wanchor
Jason is a prat
Etchings on glass
Lace etchings on traditional Cyprian windows incorporate images of women.
Etchings on glass
What is hiding among the lace?
Cyprus Windows
Windows illustrate the multi-layers of seeing.
Cyprus Windows
Looking through windows can be an invasion of personal space.
Cyprus Windows
What is a window? Domesticity?
Little Red Riding Hood
This screen print onto glass illustrates a child's story with darker undertones, showing multi-layered agendas in the story.
Wolf and Woods
Wolf and Woods are part of the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
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