Laura Scrivener trained as a professional hairdresser and has always been intrigued by the history, customs and cultural significance surrounding hair. This ongoing interest and training has since been incorporated into her artistic practice. Laura’s work explores how the female body has been, and is, objectified, idealised and fetishized. She addresses women’s rituals that involve control and power often centred on the commercial beauty industry that polices women’s bodies.
Intrigued by the collection of butterflies in the Haslemere museum and taking inspiration from the novel ‘The Collector’ by John Fowles. Laura has created this work which particularly references the first edition cover by Tom Adams- which featured a lock of hair, a key and butterfly.
“I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful.” Fowles, 1963 (P189)
Intrigued by the collection of butterflies in the Haslemere museum and taking inspiration from the novel ‘The Collector’ by John Fowles. Laura has created this work which particularly references the first edition cover by Tom Adams- which featured a lock of hair, a key and butterfly.
“I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful.” Fowles, 1963 (P189)
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