‘Personal Gods’ by Cat Johnston
When I was browsing around Flickr last week I came across the work of Cat Johnston, a brilliant British artist who’s work dabbles everywhere from illustration to the amazing statues you see above. These statues, of a size I’m not sure about, were created recently for a show at the Centrespace Gallery in Bristol. Her agency, Unseen Agency, has a description of her pieces that can’t be beat:
Cat decided to make effigies of her own personal gods for the show, each model is made up of a skeleton of wire, balsa wood and modroc. All the models faces have a balsa wood base with milliput on top and their clothes are painstakingly hand-stitched felt, with various embellishments including, leather, ribbons and intricate embroidery. Interesting fact – the God of Hair has real human hair and if you look very carefully you will notice that his crown is decorated with golden head lice and pearly nits and his combs have tiny golden moustaches.
From the top, you’re looking at the God of Eyes, the God of Hair, Recorder Beast and God of Wasps. The amount of detail and love she put into these pieces is staggering. Head lice! That’s just crazy. Also be sure to check out the tiny leather boots that the Recorder Beast is wearing, it’s all about the details in the pieces. I can’t wait to see more of Cat’s amazing work.
Bobby