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This is an opportunity to read the press releases detailing Sarah Misselbrook's development and highlights form previous years. You can read Misselbrook's thesis which discusses issues surrounding the body and the feminine. This section includes a description of Misselbrook's practice and catalogue text. Click on the links below to view the entire document.

Press Release 2006

Offical Press Release 2006.
Misselbrook’s latest works ‘Affirmation’ make reference to global consumerism in relation to the feminising of the female whilst mocking an obsessive quest for the ideal...

Press Release 2005

Official Press Release 2005.
Sarah Misselbrook’s art practice has strongly developed over the last 18 months with solo and group shows both locally and nationally. As a core artist with a space contemporary art gallery...

Press Release 2004

Offical Press Release 2004.
Having gained a first class honours degree in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, Sarah Misselbrook returned to Southampton where she was born to continue extensive historical and contemporary research as well as producing regular art works for local exhibitions and commissions...

Stuffed

Writing from 'Stuffed' Misselbrook's catologue, produced in 2000.
View the culmination of four years exploration into the socio-cultural concerns about femininity, feminism, the body, individual control and consumption...

Artist Information

Writing on Misselbrook's practice, by the artist herself.
My work is a way of exorcising something from myself, which is very emotional, maybe troubled. I become a subject who produces that which is visible. It is my silent, non-verbal response...

Raw Female: Cooked Feminine

Compiled in January 2000, this thesis was written during Misselbrook's study at Nottingham Trent University. It explores Misselbrook's own art and work by other artists who have inspired her theoretically.