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2023
1992
United Kingdom
Ginny on Frederick
Alexandra Metcalf (b. 1992) is a London-born, New York based artist. Her hand-crafted works address the social and personal history of femininity in conjunction with themes of fantasy, identification, domesticity, anxiety and loss. Drawing on a personal archive of specific traditions of craft and ornamentation (Brit-Punk, The Arts and Crafts Movement, and Victorian England), Metcalf elaborately allegorizes and reimagines the mother-daughter dyad. Her works have previously been exhibited at Fitzpatrick Gallery (FR), LOMEX (NYC), Downs and Ross (NYC), and Ginny on Frederick (UK).
Taken in the studio during the production of works for Liste, Alexandra, a self proclaimed sentimentalist, shares a series of objects below from her studio accompanied by personal reflections and thoughts:
This Turkish dancer lamp was my Grandmothers - she was Sephardic and lived in a village called Çorlu, just north of Istanbul, before she immigrated to the US. She was superstitious and mystical; growing up I was told we are descendants of a famous fortune teller. I have a proclivity towards the darker sides of the mystical so trying to stay away from that for now.
Such a sweet gift from one of my closest friends Anna Pierce. I unwrapped it and was so shocked because I had this saved on my Etsy favourites for years and had no idea how she knew. But later she told me she went online and looked at my favourites which is a really good hack to get someone something they really want. I cherish it. Love Anna.
Had a stint of only thinking about lambs and spinning wheels, exploring gendered labor from history but very happy to put a pause on the heavy Christian symbols. It also touches on this interest in spiritual psychosis that I was dealing with for a moment. Now have lots of dead lamb fragments around the studio that sort of just stay there.