Michelle mildenhall
Mildenhall is a UK based latex artist, whose work explores fetish subcultures, drawing influences from a broad range of sexual fetishes including rubber fetishism, BDSM and sexual objectification.
Mildenhall’s work is highly individual, each portrait is meticulously constructed using sheet latex and the artist has literally carved a unique niche with her work, which not only appeals to art lovers but to rubber fetishists too. The exact proportions of cut latex shapes are layered to create instantly recognisable portraits with a nod to pop art using expanses of colour.
Through her bold imagery, Mildenhall examines both empowerment and vulnerability often by fetishising iconic personalities in her distinctive pop art style. Her work is confronting and has the power to shock and move the viewer, a feeling that is increased further by the use of a restrained palette, seducing the viewer into a world of disconcerting beauty. By using popular but somewhat taboo BDSM themes, her artworks exude sexual association, but never touch on obscenity
She adds ”My current series of portraits are a culmination of my study of the medium and my experiences as a latex fetishist. My work has developed around the limitations and nature of the material resulting in a very distinctive use of positive/negative space and colour, each piece becoming defined and fetishized via its latex conceptualisation”
Mildenhall has sold pieces world wide and is gaining widespread attention, exhibiting in many prestigious galleries including the Saatchi Gallery, London, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles and Sin City Gallery in Las Vegas and she has been photographed by the renowned photographer Rankin for his “THE UNSEEN” exhibition in London . Her work has been featured on several television programs, in the press and her bestselling piece QE2, made the front cover of Skin Two, an internationally distributed magazine.
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