Original upload date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:11:30 GMT
In her photography work artist Laurie Simmons explores the role of women in society by placing miniature and doll-like figures in confined domestic settings.
Her sharp yet lifeless characters questio
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ned women’s restricted occupation of family-friendly spaces in culture and art even still in the 1970s. As a filmmaker Simmons has continued to explore the themes of gender representation through intense and heightened personas.
In this interview she talks about how her appearance in daughter Lena Dunham’s debut film ‘Tiny Furniture’ prompted her into directing her own feature film which puts a more realistic depiction of an artist at it’s centre.
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