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Persephone. Angela Hadrill, 2017.

Pool Party. Angela Hadrill, 2018.

Glossier "You"

by Angela Hadrill, 2018.

Glossier haul.

by Angela Hadrill, 2018.

Jellyfish pattern

'Medusa' Angela Hadrill [crop]

This piece was created in response to an amazing talk “Women in Power” by Mary Beard in which, among other things, she discusses the origins of the medusa myth and its depictions in modern design.

You can listen to the talk here: https://youtu.be/VGDJIlUCjA0?t=33m23s

"There are many ancient variations on Medusa’s story. One famous version has her as a beautiful woman raped by Poseidon in a temple of Athena, who promptly transformed her, as punishment for the sacrilege, into a monstrous creature with a deadly capacity to turn to stone anyone who looked at her face. (...) This is the classic myth in which the dominance of the male is violently reasserted against the illegitimate power of the woman. And Western literature, culture and art have repeatedly returned to it in those terms. The bleeding head of Medusa is a familiar sight among our own modern masterpieces, often loaded with questions about the power of the artist to represent an object at which no one should look." Beard, 2017

Medusa is constantly being depicted as object rather than subject, as a decapitated head rather than a powerful woman. She is reduced, both literally and figuratively, to a faceless being that can't be looked at and that has had their agency stripped away from them.

The narrative should be changed. She wasn't alone, she had two equally strong sisters. Being transformed was not her curse, it was a representation of her strength. She wasn't a monster, she was powerful and it was that which was feared.

‘Medusa’ Angela Hadrill

This piece was created in response to an amazing talk “Women in Power” by Mary Beard in which, among other things, she discusses the origins of the medusa myth and its depictions in modern design.

You can listen to the talk here: https://youtu.be/VGDJIlUCjA0?t=33m23s

'Medusa' Angela Hadrill

This piece was created in response to an amazing talk “Women in Power” by Mary Beard in which, among other things, she discusses the origins of the medusa myth and its depictions in modern design.

You can listen to the talk here: https://youtu.be/VGDJIlUCjA0?t=33m23s

Last little snek 🐍

So many faces 😑😑😑

Paintings made for a competition to illustrate “Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen.

"The Arabian Nights" cover design made for Recovering the Classics initiative, sourcing designs for books in the public domain.

'Heart Of Darkness" cover design made for Recovering the Classics initiative, sourcing cover designs for book in the public domain.

Cover image for "Heart of Darkness".

Endless scales

Painting of seaglass gleaned on Porth Minnick, Isles of Scilly.

Firs

Evergreen pattern

Painting progress

Painting ladiezzz. #wip #illustration #watercolour

Crop from a magazine cover I designed.

Flowers painted for a friend

Paintings made for a competition to illustrate "Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen.

Spending my Saturday painting flowers for my bestie with Mr Darcy.

Painting planties

Cover for the Febuary edition of Viva Brighton for the theme of "Flesh".

Painting some more sea glass

Seeing double

Last painting made in scilly. Painted my favourite pieces from my seaglass haul. (at St Mary's, Isles of Scilly)

New best friend (at St Mary's, Isles of Scilly)