Cathy De Monchaux is an English sculpture who creates exquisite and intricate sculptures which can be seductive and grotesquely threatening at the same time. There is a sexual threat of her objects, she uses hard materials, often spikey or in some way appearing to constrain the softer parts, which results in her work being both sensual and threatening. There is always an element of opposites in her work, such as rough and soft, achieving something like this by placing brass and steel against leather and velvet.
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| Cathy De Monchaux, Wound Painting No.9 (Thin Scar), 2002, Paper, brass, wood, paint, nails, 92x71.5x9.5cm |
While her work is fascinating and I loved looking at all her instillations and sculptures, the reason that I started looking at her was when I came across a piece of her work named 'Wound Drawing No. 8'. It's a painting created with watercolour with wire and nails around the outside. It's a lot more subtle and understated than her other work, but I really like it and I'm amazed at how similar it is to some of my scar pieces created on wooden boards. I hasn't heard of Cathy De Monchaux before I created them so I found it amazing that they were so similar. Monchaux's piece is purposely rough looking, similar to how my pieces were. However there are a lot of differences as the ideas behind the pieces and the aterials used. But either way I find the piece amazing and really catches your attention, which is what I would like to hopefully achieve with my work.
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