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Work Type:sculpture
Date of work:1998
Materials:medium: rag, adobe, human hair, straw, banana skins, urine, molasses, pigment

Measurements:21
extent: dolls

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:object, doll, scary figures
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
Stefanie Marshall's Adobe Dolls are made quite obsessively; scores of these witchy, scary, smelly totems are already in existence. The repetition is not about reinforcing artistic or aesthetic presence, but is perhaps evidence of a cathartic process for the artist and a means of release.
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Source:From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence. “New Contemporaries 99”, exhibition catalogue, Manchester, 1999.
Date of source:1999