2011 - 2013

7 Billion and Rising

From Doll Works

Made between 2011 and 2013, Doll Works started with the artist finding her childhood collection of National Costume Dolls.

She started to photograph the dolls and arrange them in taxonomic groups. She began to collect dolls on eBay, trying to complete a complete picture of the worlds people. This resulted in a number of works that use dolls to explore ideas of cultural appropriation and stereo typing, using the dolls as a sculptural material.

This large installation of dolls - in which the dolls create a landscape of mountains and atols - references population growth and questions colonialism and collections.