Jenny Keane

Exhibiting from 21^st October – 18^th November

at the University of Derby,

 ‘The Lick Drawings’ are a series of twenty stills taken from horror films. Developing on from Jenny’s previous art practice of the mouth as a source of both desire and disgust, she begins to lick the horrific element in the image to remove it.

The licking evokes ideas surrounding ingestion, language, the body, and (alternative) female sexuality. The pressure of licking causes her tongue to bleed. The blood creates an orangey-red tinge at each licked section. By licking the drawing, she is, in a way, attempting to ‘help’ the image by removing its ‘horrific’ element.