New Website

I haven't posted work on here for a long time because I finally got around to designing a website. Please checkout kellyedstevenson.ca

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Kelly

Finally Done

These 4 pieces are currently on display at the Steam Whistle Gallery in a group show called "Down the Rabbit Hole". It opens today and runs until the end of August.

Grown Out of Darkness

What Remains

Who Heals You

Surrounded by sudden inexplicable deaths

the more she pondered the more beyond her

everything seemed

and...still not done

new work in progress (i'll be lucky if its done before i'm 80)

                                                          A Violent Death Disrupts

                                                             Immensity Surrounds Us

                                                          Intoxicated with Happiness

Work in Progress

Final Thesis Work

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Women whose lives have been taken over by the pressure to achieve the ideal female form, and develop eating disorders are often portrayed with very little humanity and kept as an other. Our society has been desensitized by the constant bombardment of images. This has left the focus on the shocking physical ramifications of eating disorders, leaving the people within the bodies to be lost.           

This installation, consisting of 19 large scale drawings and a box filled with family photos, objects, articles and drawings, strives to put the humanity back into the portrayal of eating disorder sufferers. Taking reference from photos accompanying articles, medical textbooks and from anorexia and bulimia based online communities, and juxtaposing them with family photos, the work pushes the viewer to see the person behind the emaciated body they inhabit.  The image of the healthy, very much alive person is seen through the keyhole like, shells of bodies that have pushed to the edge.

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