Pissed
Pissed
About the Show.
Expanding on Erin's growing digital sculptures of quotidian, working-class figures, PISSED physically manifests the often-inevitable aftermath of a raucous girls night out.
Deliberately vulgar and subversive, here the word ‘pissed’ is used not only as a verb for the act of urination and as the adjective for drunk, but also as the inevitable outrage caused by public pissing, particularly by women.
Inspired by Rembrandt’s Pissing Woman (1631), one of the first of its kind to depict female urination as an everyday act without ecclesiastical ceremony, PISSED is a means to transgress puritanical and prejudiced social, political, and religious codes of what it means to be indecent, particularly when it comes to gendered stereotypes.
Pissed
Location: 15 Queen's Square, Middlesbrough, TS2 1AA
Dates: Thurs 24 Sept - Sat 3 Oct (closed Mon & Tue)
Hours: Daily 10am-4pm
Access: Step Free
Artists: Erin Dickson
-
Erin Dickson is a sculptor. She initially studied Architecture at the Architectural Association in London and later went on to complete both her MA and PhD at the University of Sunderland. Dickson’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Glasstress, The National glass centre, The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and FACT in Liverpool. She has received international grants and awards including an Honorary Diploma from the Jutta Cuny Foundation, Germany, and a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England.
Dickson explores tongue-in-cheek themes of ‘Britishness,’ particularly in relation to her birthplace in North East England. She works in the space between craft and digital manufacture, operating both physically and virtually to develop systems of correspondence. Through humour, her sculptures, videos, and installations deliberately soften provocative subject matter, including British class systems, AI bias, intimacy, community, and isolation.
