Francesca Havelock
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture)
I often think about how the materials I am so drawn to would interact what they would say to each other something elegant and perhaps romantic while also laughing in your face I think about you and how much you make me laugh and the dog we don’t have together yet and I keep that stupid dick pillow I made in my studio to remind me that things are never as serious as people like to pretend I like a glance between something sentimental and something that makes you laugh but also the history the history of material is so important to me material is everything and anything and nothing will ever compare to your lived experiences dad made me some bok-choy with a little soy sauce and oyster sauce and mum always brushed my hair I am drawn to things that are both soft and hard things that pair well together they just seem to match I want my hair to grow long and I want to make a corset I think about my body and the things that I wear and the days I can’t decide what to put on so I just don’t bother to leave the house.
These objects work together in conversation to reveal small parts of family history, lived experience and connection to the body, one of which is not entirely present. Through my material play, I hope to spark something beautiful yet grotesque, often how we picture our own bodies to be.
Documentation by Christo Crocker.
