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Title: Highland Dress
Date: 2010
Measurements: life-size
Description: Dress made from pink Ordinance Survey maps if the Scottish Highlands
Material: paper;maps
Provenance: London, UK
Notes: “Susan Stockwell’s Highland Dress (2009) is an empty life-sized female dress composed of ordinance survey maps of the Scottish Highlands glued together. Stockwell delivers a visual blow to English colonization and occupation of Scotland over 300 years. Using military maps to create a woman’s dress sends a double message of war and politics being dominated by men in Western history. The strongly posed representation of feminism battles against male denial of power and suggests that men can only settle disputes through wars.” From - Review of “Mapping: memory and Motion in Contemporary Art” at Katonah Museum of Art International Journal of Multicultural education – Vol. 12 no. 2
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