Lakeside Arts - Paula Rego

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24th September 2024

Today we went down to Lakeside Arts to see their show on the artists Paula Rego, and Grayson Perry. I enjoyed this trip to the Lakeside, overall I was more drawn to the work of Paula Rego but I was also very interested in the detail work/texture in Grayson Perry's work.

Paula Rego - Visions of English Literature

This show was a collection of Rego's printmaking work, inspired by well-known pieces of the English Literary canon, namely Nursery Rhymes, Peter Pan, and Jane Eyre. The show also shows some of her personal items such as her childhood copy of Peter Pan, unseen preparatory sketches, and etching plates. I was more drawn towards her works around Nursery Rhymes and was the most excited about seeing these pieces of work in person. I became more aware of her work during my FMP last year, where I was creating work inspired by kids' stories. This part of the research I did on her work was quite small I found today to have been a nice day to discover more of her work in both rhymes I am aware of and ones I have not heard of before. Rego has a unique way of telling a story through her work. She took known stories and twisted them in her own way, adding fantasy and a sense of darkness in her work that is not normally seen especially in work related to childhood stories. I enjoy this twist in her work as I personally enjoy work that has an oddness to them, that other people find weird or disturbing. I find that her work adds a unique twist to stories that are normally shown in a more happy, 'kid-friendly' way, showing that not all stories have to be bright, colorful, and happy, that they can be dark, colorless, and odd.

Nursery Rhymes

'The Old Lady who Lived in a Shoe' -1989
'Hey Diddle Diddle' -1989
'Goosey-Goosey Gander' -1989
'Three Blind Mice' (1&2) -1989
'Rock-a-bye, Baby' -1994
'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' -1989
'Humpty Dumpty' -1989
'Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary' (1&2) -1989
'See-saw, Margery Daw' -1994
'Ladybird, Ladybird' -1989
'Who Killed Cock Robbin?' (1&2) -1989
'Jack and Jill' -1989
'Rub-a-dub-dub' -1994
'A Frog he would a-wooing go' (1&2) -1989
'Little Miss Muffet' (1&2) -1989





















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