Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2024
‘Uhtceare’ Series
This series of work titled 'Uhtceare' acts as both a euphemism and a confrontation of gender-based violence and misogyny and its lingering dissociative effects on one’s perception of reality. Ishbel paints the liminal space between 'healing' and 're-living' through the lens of object-oriented ontology, a philosophy that counters anthropocentrism and views objects with their own sense of independent reality separate from humans. Within these works, these inflatable lilo's become a site of catharsis, abstraction and transference of body and self, reflecting the complex emotional and physical processes of navigating trauma while maintaining an ambiguity to their conception.