Lipperin Exhibition | Bonhoga Gallery | 2022
This group exhibition was curated by the students as part of our 3rd Year Professional Practice module for the BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree course at UHI Shetland, and supported by Shetland Arts. The Bonhoga Gallery in Shetland was the perfect space for our work.
'Lipperin' is a Shetland dialect word described in John J. Graham's Shetland dictionary as full to overflowing. We felt our ideas and our creative practice were 'lipperin owre'.
I explored the narrative and materiality of the media I used to create the work for the exhibition. I found that contrasts seemed to emerge within the work: strength and vulnerability, femininity and masculinity, figurative and abstract, light and dark, hidden and exposed, natural and man-made, homely and uncanny.
I enjoyed creating work that between these seemingly opposing themes. Someone commented that they didn't know whether my sculptures were creepy or in need of a hug.
If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them. Paula Rego
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