Deborah Sisk

Deborah Sisk

Deborah Sisk is a sculpture and collage artist living and working in the North East of England. She takes inspiration from T.S. Eliot’s idea of the artist as a role of “continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.” In her work, Sisk explores her own extraction of personality, as a woman sacrificing herself to a lifetime of different undervalued and invisible caring roles. Through sculpture and collage, she represents the fragmented self as a mother, daughter, wife, nurse, carer whilst asserting something of the invisible other. The personal self, hidden behind these prescribed roles, who survive despite of them. Through multiple repetitions of her own image, the luxury of exposure emerges. It is a battle against the prescribed definition of being a woman, often taught throughout childhood and adolescence. She plays with a sense of the self, by copying and transforming her own face, defying the invisible woman.

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