Marina Warner
Marina Warner
b. London, England 1946
Mythographer, critic and writer of fiction, Marina's books From the Beast to the Blonde and No Go The Bogeyman investigates various figures from myth and fairy-tales to uncover their hidden psychological and historical roots. "Stories come from the past but speak to the present" . A weaver of tales herself, Marina writes novels and short stories to “explore the way imagination leads understanding, how fantasy shapes goals and values for individuals as well as societies”.
With an affinity for the sinister and the sexual, this fantastical re-imagining of a gifted researcher and writer concentrates on the idea that a pretty exterior may hide unspeakable and ancient horrors. Sometimes it's best not to look.
Marina's graceful, compelling and yet repulsive squid tentacles are capable of holding many poses - and there's an even more unusual surprise lurking beneath her voluminous frock. She is a frankenstein construction beginning with a found doll (styrofoam, stockings, paint and tafffeta) with the addition of wire-armatured tentacles sewn out of heavy cotton upholstery fabric and stuffed with wadding, embellished with sculpey tentacle suckers. She has a major role in Aurelia's photographic series The Unspeakable Horror at Tea Time