Welcome to Mamamia’s art endeavour, the Voulez-Vous Project. Every week we celebrate emerging artists, designers, illustrators, creators and women who knit using their vaginas. (Kidding. Maybe.)
The aim: to make the internet a slightly more beautiful, captivating, or thought-provoking place. To find out more about the Voulez-Vous project, click here. Click here to see all the previous Voulez-Vous posts.
This week’s featured artist on the Voulez-Vous project is Prue Stent.
This talented young photographer creates images that are obscure and challenging, while at the same time retaining a sense of playfulness with her use of bright colours. Prue frequently focuses her photos on the female body – or a part of the female body – and juxtaposes this against random objects, from octopus tentacles to balloons to watermelons.
The objects in each image hint at the meaning Prue is trying to convey with her photos – usually an exploration of the female body or gender identity.
Her artwork is inspired by – and often involves – the women in her life.
“The process of collaboration with my close girl friends as models inspires and influences much of my work,” she says.
“This often spontaneous creative process evokes a natural exploration and questioning of gender identity and stereotypes. I don’t feel the need to be overly intellectual or confrontational on these topics.”
