Angry Mum Doll

Yarn, buttons, fabric, nails and branches, 115 x 130 x 15cm.

She came to my imagination fully formed as a powerful witch woman who does not care about her appearance, she's hairy, she is naked but not in seductive way, more in a "I don't have anything to hide". She's been pulled in all directions by the external and internalised pressures of being a woman and a mother, of pleasing and caring and she is ready to release her joyful, unashamed anger.
While making it, I was reading the book Hagitude by Sharon Blackie about female power after the menopause and I also was thinking about Shelagh Na gigs, female stone statues with wide open vulvas believed to be either fertility symbols or protection against evil.