‘Pearls’
by Maisie Broadhead

Role - Studio photography production / Retouching

Production by Studio BC

A mixed media collection incorporating photography, sculpture and film that references 17th century formal female portraiture which was often a means for the elite to reveal the beauty of their daughters before marriage; designed to seduce the onlooker and allude to virtue, dowry and their social position. The pearl represented wealth, but also purity and chastity. The collection realigns and subverts these visual cues.