Many Long Slow Waits

Falling and waiting to fall further
Fallible and human
Power politics and paper cutouts
(Cut along the dotted line)
Masculine and feminine
(and everything in between)
Unquestionably Watertight
Ready to wear
Cheap and nasty
and a bit kinky 

“…the semblance of garment with practical overtones - ‘one size fits all’ - suggests that this is an anonymous, standard fate. You will fit yourself to the garment, not the other way around. The work’s title – “Many Long Slow Waits” - also calls to mind a kind of repetitive domestic drudgery of routine; and there is something irrefutably female about the implications this work invokes.

 It’s a piece that left me thinking about societal constructs and gender roles: what we choose to put on willingly, and what we find ourselves wearing one day, not having realised it would prove so hard to take off.” 

— Mellony Taper

Read the full review of Lisa Scantlebury’s Many Long Slow Waits, RWA Bristol, 2019

Artwork details

Title: Many Long Slow Waits
Year: 2019
Materials: PVC, Binding, Wire
Dimensions (one coat, total six coats): 130cm (H) x 60cm (W) x 60cm (D)
Weight (one coat, total six coats): 1kg

Exhibited

Many Long Slow Waits (solo exhibition) – Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol UK, 2019
167 Annual Open Exhibition – RWA, Bristol UK, 2019

Photography by Jo Hounsome Photography.
RWA Images courtesy of RWA.