Tulpa

By: Jennifer Elizabeth McNeil

Master of Fine Arts

Inspired by ever adventurous and distant dog walks, in an attempt to escape the constraints of society, this work is made in response to both personal and worldly anxieties. As an artist Jennifer is concerned with a range of issues in her work, most notably the autobiographical and her exploration of the potential transmutation into some other kind of sculptural self or selves in recent new cloth sculptural works. The influence of local flora and fauna, canine companions, monsters from myth and horror and the human body amalgamate to produce new and imagined ‘beings.

The domestic space of the ‘home’ and the domestication of species around the planet, from the ‘taming’ of the wild, to genetic changes in animals, is considered in relation to post-humanist ideas. Psychoanalysis and the role of fantasy, storytelling and horror on the unconscious mind is considered.

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