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“I’m interested in showing the joy of life, and at other times, I feel I want to depict the terror of life... My series of paintings Bringing Home Baby show babies meeting with cultures that are quite idiosyncratic. The settings of the paintings are strange. The absurd, dream-like qualities of these settings evoke the strangeness of the new worlds for the babies. Life is getting complicated…”
– Violet Costello on her series Bringing Home Babies
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Touch Him is currently on view at Cromwell Place as part of the Mother Art Prize exhibition.
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“Among 626 entries from 45 countries, selected by an incredible line up of judges, Violet Costello was the undoubted winner of Mother Art Prize 2020 Online Award. Violet’s works reimagine figurative art into an engaging new language that combines imagination, play and the grotesque. Costello offers interesting new narratives around the idea of family, care and socio-cultural imprints. As directors of an organisation that promotes and investigates themes surrounding the maternal experience and identity, Violet is definitely an exciting discovery”
– Dyana Gravina, Founder and Creative Director, Procreate Project
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