Wednesday 16 June 2010

JULIET SUGG - MAD WOMAN IN THE ATTIC?


"You have been a wery, wery bad teddy-bear"

Juliet Sugg is the queen of confessional art. When she's not illustrating our digital shop windows with bats and sexy rabbits, she's locked up in her attic with pen glued to hand confronting that slippery little triptych of sex, guilt and bestiality. While the majority of her work rates an 18 certif, SUPERSWEET decided to exhibit her subtler - yet equally potent - portrayals of domestic angst and complex undertones of sexual guilt.

We're not the only ones embroiled in Juliet's confessional underworld. During her studies at Central St. martins, she won a coveted Scholarship, then smashed through her graduate show with a daringly intimate collection to rival Emin.

Other magazines have dared to bare her most confronting and sensitive work to date, where she "attempts to wrestle with the perceptions of what it is to be human". Questioning where skin begins and fur ends, Juliet illustrates fur as a mask, and the skin-fur marriage as a carnival of horrible delight. "The ‘children’ born of these acts are marked by their animal inheritance and must learn to cut, groom and disguise their ever growing unruly manes."

Juliet, we like.

If you want to indulge in more of Juliet's art, see our digital art gallery here, or visit her in her underworld: website.

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