Armoured Lady

Artist/Creator: Audrey Capel Doray (Artist)
Date: 1968/2011
The original audio was lost. Mark Oliver composed and recorded this in 2011.
ID #: BG5354

Physical Description

Medium: wood, metal, mirror, electrical components, paint
Support: –
Dimensions
Object Description: Audrey Capel Doray's work takes up experimental materials and methodologies to interrogate female archetypes. Armoured Lady is one of a number of sculptural works that Doray made using mannequin forms: “I had initially thought I would do a cast of a body and then, lo and behold, the display units for women’s lingerie were making a conversion from hard clear plastic to Styrofoam so all these became garbage and I collected a lot of them. I decorated the inside of the bust in the same way that I had done Hexagon, using the lift-off technique. Armoured Lady sits on a stand and has an audio component as well, with the two lights on the dress going off and on at approximately a breathing rate. So when the percussion sound happened to hit, the light changed and you connected with the piece; this was happening at random points which was so much better than synchronized, as I had originally planned.”

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2016
Related Exhibitions: Stations: Some Recent Acquisitions
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