Boot Scootin' Venus

white stoneware clay, clear glaze, fired to 1100°C, overglaze gold lustre, enamels, semi-precious stones, costume jewellery. 50 cm tall x 30 cm deep x 20 cm wide The archetype Venus – the Woman – here portrayed as an American western bordello queen, saloon seductress, seducer and femme fatale. She is also a sister and guide, feminist and ‘arch-defender of her gender’. Venus is feisty, fruity, frivolous, fulsome and fights like hell. This portrayal is an exercise in describing women to other women, a kind of exultation of what it is to be ‘us’.