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Photo Credit: Henny Burnett

Henny Burnett

30 handbags (detail of one bag), - 1994

Dimensions of the whole work - one hundred and sixty centimetres by four hundred and eighty centimetres by five centimetres. The structure of the work is architectural. The whole piece consists of thirty units, which are arranged according to site or location. The use of stereo - typical female objects, handbags and kitchen utensils, is a reference to advertisements found in 1950 women's magazines. The piece is also about collecting, arrangement, memory and ephemera.

36cm x 25cm

wax

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