Antonia Tibble
Antonia Tibble graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in 2009, and works across various media including sculpture, photography and video. Her carefully crafted and highly polished work questions historical ideas of femininity and beauty, wittily appropriating past aesthetics; such as the domesticated woman of 1930s-50s, enjoying her housework in a state of undress, or the young French Dauphine Marie Antoinette, delicately made-up and lavishly costumed. Tibble performs these roles herself, and also edits the resulting photographs and videos, and so she is both artist and subject of these brilliant reconstructions.
Marie Antoinette #4
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Photography
70cm x 47cm
Lambda c type print mounted on aluminium
Editions 7 10 of 10
This series of works engages with the rich mythology and gorgeous aesthetics of Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793), who lived a famously indulgent and luxurious lifestyle until she was beheaded during the Reign of Terror at the height of the French Revolution. The artist has sculpted two extravagant wigs of artificial hair and found objects, and also photographed herself wearing these wigs while acting the role of the decadent French Dauphine.
£1,050
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