Sculpture

Loci

2023

Wood, paper, LED lights, carpet

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

H: 67.5cm, W 61cm, D 37.5cm

Containing the crushed drawings from the project Loci literally houses the thoughts & memories of the artist. The dolls house represents the head & refers also to the concept of a mind palace, a safe place she can go inside her head as well as wander through its architecture. The one word title also means a particular position or place where something occurs or is situated. The drawings contained inside are a collection of traumatic events now located in one place.

When spoken the title can also be mistaken for Loki. Loki was regarded by the ancient Norse people as the god of mischief, trickery, and deception.

The contents of the dolls house are no longer present except for two clocks as a reminder that time is present but not linear. The mind recalls memories & trauma in different ways & never chronologically. LED lights twinkle with a cool light like synapses of the brain firing throughout the rooms.

Painted in bright flamingo pink, her camp side is also revealed & celebrated. Although the work focuses on trauma her presentation to the world is not without humour.

Subu

2023

Permajet double-sided Matt paper, 23ct gold leaf, bell jar

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

Size: Small - H 19cm

All bell jar sculptures are unique, with 23ct gold leaf hand applied by the artist.

Pungent odours permeate & trigger the mind more than any other sense. Recalling the scents of childhood through the decorative objects that housed them are rendered here. They include a ceramic cat & faux Fabergé egg made by the cosmetics company Avon.

Redolence

2023

Permajet double-sided Matt paper, 23ct gold leaf, bell jar

Size: Small - H 19cm

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

All bell jar sculptures are unique, with 23ct gold leaf hand applied by the artist.

Pungent odours permeate & trigger the mind more than any other sense. Recalling the scents of childhood through the decorative objects that housed them are rendered here. They include a ceramic cat & faux Fabergé egg made by the cosmetics company Avon.

Zaftig

2023

Permajet double-sided Matt paper, 23ct gold leaf, bell jar

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

Size: Large - H 26cm

All bell jar sculptures are unique, with 23ct gold leaf hand applied by the artist.

Zaftig borrows an informal American term for a full rounded figure. This term like many is only directed at women. Derogatory jabs towards women wear them down, encouraging body dysmorphia. Noble both celebrates & bites back with this work, turning negative attitudes around.

Calamus

2023

Permajet double-sided Matt paper, 23ct gold leaf, bell jar

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

Size: Large - H 26cm

All bell jar sculptures are unique, with 23ct gold leaf hand applied by the artist.

Calamus refers to the hollow lower part of the shaft of a feather or a quill. Obsessively drawing feathers she picked up from the age of 6, the Noble began her life long love of drawing from life. Quills bore equal fascination as early writing implements rendering feathers even more magical as a representation of escape through flight & literature. Two of her favourite things.

It has real light switches

2023

Permajet double-sided Matt paper, 23ct gold leaf, bell jar

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

Size: Large - H 26cm

All bell jar sculptures are unique, with 23ct gold leaf hand applied by the artist.

As with all her works, the title indicates a trauma without using triggering language. It has real light switches connects to a difficult memory involving a dolls house which was never completed or played with stored in an outhouse. The miniature Bakerlite light switches with tiny working lightbulbs offered comfort through the imaginings of a young mind.

T-bar

2023

Permajet double-sided Matt paper, 23ct gold leaf, bell jar

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

Size: Large - H 26cm

All bell jar sculptures are unique, with 23ct gold leaf hand applied by the artist.

T-bar reconnects several red objects including a leather purse, a beloved pair of T-bar Clarkes shoes & ballet shoes worn by Moira Shearer in the 1948 Powell & Pressburger film The Red Shoes. In the film the shoes are both a form of joy of dance & her undoing as a metaphor for the men who pull her in two directions through their own selfish obsessive love & need to possess her. Red shoes have also been used as a symbol solidarity with victims & survivors of domestic violence - a subject often explored by Noble. The ‘T’ also connects to hidden parts of the artists identity from early childhood - now buried - but not forgotten.

Avon

2023

Permajet double-sided Matt paper, 23ct gold leaf, bell jar

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

Size: Large - H 26cm

All bell jar sculptures are unique, with 23ct gold leaf hand applied by the artist.

Avon returns to themes of perfume made by the cosmetics company in the shape of different objects. In this case an old fashioned telephone which also connects to the place she lived & a connection to a telephone at the bottom of the stairs near the front door. This door was never used by anyone living there, or those who knew its residents. The notion of behind closed doors where things are unseen reverberate when contained in a glass dome.

Handbook #1

2004

Hand cut paperback volume

Series: Editing Volumes

The first of the physical objects made with hand cut edits where books are held to be read. They reveal the inner workings of the pages whilst obscuring the reader from the words now missing & secured, able to open at one page only.

Woman in clay

1995

Clay

A sketch of a seated nude in clay.