Judy Dewsbery

The sanctuary, the security, the bedrock of family.

I have taken images from family photos and drawn directly onto a dress that I made about 30 years ago. I have worn this dress at different times over this period, in different ways- with petticoats or possibly with very little underneath….such was my life, adapting to circumstances, often brazen but sometimes fading into the background.

Very personal work, drawing on my life and what's happening around me.

I have chosen to show the dress this time as an object ‘light-as-air', flying, reflecting my current feeling of impermanence as I fall or can't stop myself running towards becoming……a grandmother.

September 2008

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Judy Dewsbery: Life Dress September 2008 This dress charts my life through my family history; seeing the course of ‘me' coming through my great grandparents and grandparents none of whom I ever met but they were talked about often; my parents and siblings – us growing up as a family, and now my own children and our family stories as we all go one rung further up the ladder of life with a new generation about to be born.



The sanctuary, the security, the bedrock of family. I have taken images from family photos and drawn directly onto a dress that I made about 30 years ago. I have worn this dress at different times over this period, in different ways- with petticoats or possibly with very little underneath….such was my life, adapting to circumstances, often brazen but sometimes fading into the background. Very personal work, drawing on my life and what's happening around me. I have chosen to show the dress this time as an object ‘light-as-air', flying, reflecting my current feeling of impermanence as I fall or can't stop myself running towards becoming……a grandmother. September 2008 back to main site, events