Even «declawing» them by removing their fingertips (cutting
of the section that grows their claws) does not remove their
obsession with clawing, it just makes it irritating to
painful for them.
Approaching the complexities
of gender and sexuality, Dawn Mellor explores the
painful aspects
of female experience, often linked to today's
obsessions with celebrity, while John Kirby's paintings describe, allegorically, the suffering
of people squeezed into the straightjackets
of religious, sexual and social norms.