Pretty Ogre, 2011, by Trish Morrissey
‘This series was made with my daughter when she was between the ages of four and five. Face painting is a rainy day activity that we both enjoy. Soon, she wanted to paint me rather than be painted. Instead of the usual motifs of butterfly, or flower, she would paint something from her immediate experience – a movie she had just watched, a right of passage, or a vivid dream. Beyond the innocence of the child’s intention, more sinister themes such as clowns, carnival and the grotesque are evoked by these mask-like paintings’
