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Homemaker \u00a0\/\/<\/b> Opens April 5th \/\/ Tooth Gallery\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Organised as part of Live Art Local CIC’s initiative to bring contemporary\u00a0art into everyday spaces, Homemaker is a new exhibition featuring the work of illustrator Erin Keen.<\/p>\n

Erin Keen is a freelance illustrator who enjoys drawing girls with nice hair cuts and 1950s furniture. She studied Illustration at Winchester School of Art and graduated with a First in 2013. Erin currently works in Portsmouth.<\/p>\n

Most recently Erin has illustrated Cathy Cassidy’s Carnegie medal nominated “Looking Glass Girl’ as well as Cathy’s Chocolate box series spin off “Chocolate Box Secrets’.<\/p>\n

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Erin Keen. UNTITLED.\u00a02016<\/em><\/h6>\n

Curated by Jenny Tipton, Homemaker seeks to explore perceptions of domestic spaces in relation to the female. A selection of interiors and female portraits, Keen purposefully locates the girls in her paintings outside of domestic spaces, standing slightly awkwardly together on a blank canvas, not quite women yet. The portraits prompt a viewer to question the roles these girls will grow to fill and the assumptions made\u00a0when one sees domestic spaces alongside females.<\/p>\n

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Erin Keen. GIRLS CLUB I.\u00a02016<\/em><\/h6>\n

Frequently ‘homemaking’ is traditionally devalued and portrayed as\u00a0frivolous, a less important use of time compared to paid work which is stereotypically assigned to a male counterpart. And yet to have a home is seen as a fundamental human requirement,\u00a0surpassed by perhaps only nourishment and clothing.<\/p>\n

Within her practice Keen also recognises an awareness of the uncertain economic situation living as an artist often leads to, stating “I think I obsess so much about interiors because I’d love to actually decorate a house of my own…but obviously I’m a poor artist so I can’t’.<\/p>\n

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Erin Keen. UNTITLED. 2016<\/em><\/h6>\n

Homemaker opens on 5th April and will run for three months.<\/p>\n

The Tooth Gallery is based at Southsea Orthodontic Practice and runs quarterly exhibitions throughout the year.<\/p>\n

See the exhibition at:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>7 Victoria Rd South, Southsea PO5 2DD<\/span><\/p>\n

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