Mummy's Little Helper by Niki Cotton

Mummy's Little Helper
GBP 450
Mixed media: glass
paper
glue and biro
My work over the last few years have been focused on what it is to be a woman & a mother. The endless fracturing of self. I made this piece of work as a comment on the near constant rhetoric of 'mommy's littlehelper', 'wine o'clock' in the mediaand that unless you have your well deserved glass of alcohol in hand, you can't possibly function as a mother. So I made the petri dish into a slightly useless glass that resembles the vintage champagne glasses from the 50's. Inside the petri dish can be found a photograph of a woman prone on the floor in front of the washing machine, washing tumbling out on top of her, all dressed up with nowhere to go apart from the microscope that could be awaiting her. Her endless wrestle to be an artist writ large on her back as she drowns in domesticity. But remember... it's 5 o'clock somewhere.
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