I AM MY MOTHER’S SAVAGE DAUGHTER by Poppy Mercedes Pearce

Pastel on canvas

100 x 100 cm

£2000

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Artist Statement

I, Poppy Mercedes Pearce (b.1999, London, UK) am an artist, living in Brighton, making work in relation to womanhood and nature. I am currently completing my final year of undergraduate Painting and Printmaking degree at The Glasgow School Of Art. Through storytelling, the works connect with ancient practices, through an eternal and universal language of human communication and expression. The work consists of predominantly large oil paintings on canvas and wood, other works include drawing, ceramics.

Making pictures mainly from observation, drawn from experience in a woman’s body in this world, the work explores sacred patterns and cycles of life and death. Narratives of motherhood and femininity are told, personal experience of the recent loss of my own mother is woven into my pictures. They can be understood within the realms of ecofeminism, Jungianism, and spiritualism.

The piece submitted is titled ‘I am my mother’s savage daughter’, it belongs to a body of work I called ‘Waste Not Want Not’. It is an expression of divine feminine energy, moon cycles and wildness.