Dolly Daydream

‘You are my reflection and all I see is you.’

I have been intrigued by Bradley dolls since childhood. The 70’s dolls epitomise the idealised perfection of beauty I aspired to when I was seven years old. They are reflections of a girl growing up, a personal account that moulded my identity, the seemingly unobtainable desire to be older, to be someone else, not happy in her seven year old skin.

The doll paintings evoke a great sense of nostalgia, and by mirroring them in a diptych format, question the idea of individuality. Their Kogei eyes gaze at one another; the same, but never the same, as mirrors show us what we look like, but not who we are.

The doll diptych is about Women and the unconscious desire to be looked after, the Cinderella complex. They are modern day Icons that glorify beauty and perfection, and which challenge us to consider our own sense of self.