This is the second piece I've created in relation to a Theatre Pro Rata. If you scroll back to Margaret Thatcher, you can see that piece as lobby art. My background is in theatre, so its second nature to me to work with theatres. Quite a few of my materials to create panels also come from theatres. Eleanor has been on my To Do list for awhile, so when Theatre Pro Rata was doing 46 Plays for First Ladies, I knew this would be a great opportunity to create Eleanor. My cousin has always liked Eleanor, so after the production was over, Eleanor went to hang in my cousin’s house.
Theatre had been on hold in the pandemic. I didn’t do theatre for two years. 2022 is the first year where I’ve had to balance theatre and brart. I like both art forms for different reasons. Theatre is collaborative art, and you build comradery within production teams. Theatre always has a hard and fast deadline of opening night. Brart is solitary, in a good way, I can do pieces as I want and whichever subject matter I choose. I can push and define boundaries of the art as I like. I had been creating brart at a consistent pace in 2020 and 2021. I created Eleanor after a fourth month break from brart because I was working on theatre productions. I really didn’t enjoy not working on brart for that long of a period of time. My main challenge is that brart is best done with uninterrupted periods of time. I can always tell when I’ve rushed a piece, and I don’t like looking at a piece knowing I could have done better. I’m trying to work my schedule so I don’t have such long periods without brart.
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AuthorMinnesota native, Sadie started making brart (bra-art) in 2019. Archives
February 2024
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