Faith Pallett

I am artist who seeks to explore society’s learnt negative assumptions about certain taboos, an artist who feels drawn to expose censorship and reveal injustices that go against a humanitarian ethos. My practice has been generated from making history paintings and drawings that re-valourize herstory. In particular, the parts of herstory that have been silenced by history. ‘The Silent War’ – the name of my thesis, came from my researching the suffragette and second wave feminist movements – specifically to locate the heroines of these movements in order to re-valourize them and lift their status from the depths it had been condemned to by patriarchal censorship and spin. The time differences between performance and painting/drawing and how events are recorded or recollected are informing current practice and final BA degree piece ‘Pina was a Painter’ a crowd scene from the film about Pina Bausch 'Pina' (showing at FUSE2016 see link on homepage) alongside issues around female power, taboo and the abject notion of blood as signifier of both fecundity and death currently drive my research and practice.