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Let Them Eat Cake
Michelle Souter

Michelle Souter

Michelle Souter is an emerging artist who creates mono-print drawings and sculptural installations, whose work is already included in the most prestigious private collections. Whilst Souter's starting point is life drawing, the anatomical correctness in her work is disturbed by the interjection of animal heads, creating monstrous, ambiguous figures. By creating work in reverse with her non-writing hand Souter's work instantly has a child like aesthetic. The layering of images and text suggests a spontaneous outpouring of thoughts and memory, suggestive of free association and Freudian theory and links her drawing to the layering aesthetic of embroidery. Typically using found materials and objects from second hand shops Souter's work is imbued with history and memory. Souter's work fuses theories of psychoanalysis with the raw explicitness of Emin, a Kusama like obsession and an aesthetic reminiscent of Egon Shiele.