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These include those with an image appropriated from a pornographic magazine; those which feature a genuine photograph of the woman concerned taken either personally or professionally in a studio; those which appear to the artist to have been designed by a man; and those which he surmises have been produced by the prostitute in question and represent her in a manner in which she intends. It is these in which McKeran is particularly interested. McKeran uses these cards as a point of departure from which to make nervous, linear drawings, recalling cards that in a previous era consisted of ink drawing illustrations. McKeran's technique is to fix his gaze on the card whilst making the drawing with only cursory glances. He replicates the figure as well as the writing, revealing charged drawings 'that are resonant of our ambivalent attitudes in society towards prostitution'.

Hannah Plumb graduated this year from Wimbledon School of Art. Her sculptural, photographic and light box work is derived from a strong interest in animism, which is 'the human ability to project life onto inanimate and lifeless objects'. Plumb's work will consist of sculptures cast from sex dolls, light boxes and badges featuring words and slogans appropriated from the written descriptions on sex doll packaging such as 'loving mouth' or 'inviting mouth and anus'.


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