{"id":413009,"date":"2023-10-13T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=413009"},"modified":"2023-10-20T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:23:42","slug":"isabel-rock-gourd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/isabel-rock-gourd\/","title":{"rendered":"In This Surreal Painting, the Pink Foot of Patriarchy Squashes a Pumpkin Worshipped by Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/figurative-paintings\/isabel-rock-surrealist-painting-royal-college-art-lgbtq-women-artist-pumpkin-pink-orange\/id-a_10985522\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_1_master.jpeg\" alt=\"Isabel Rock, Gourd, 2022\" class=\"wp-image-412876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_1_master.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_1_master-499x350.jpeg 499w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_1_master-950x666.jpeg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_1_master-120x84.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_1_master-768x539.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_1_master-640x450.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_1_master-1330x933.jpeg 1330w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/figurative-paintings\/isabel-rock-surrealist-painting-royal-college-art-lgbtq-women-artist-pumpkin-pink-orange\/id-a_10985522\/\"><em>Gourd<\/em>, 2022, by Isabel Rock<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What would happen if everything you adored, even the entire structure of your society, were suddenly smashed to a pulp? That is the question <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/isabel-rock\/art\/\">Isabel Rock<\/a> asks in her spunky, tragicomic acrylic-ink painting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/figurative-paintings\/isabel-rock-surrealist-painting-royal-college-art-lgbtq-women-artist-pumpkin-pink-orange\/id-a_10985522\/\"><em>Gourd<\/em><\/a>, 2022. The piece portrays a forest-dwelling band of seminaked women panicking as an enormous, pink, hairy foot comes crashing through their gourd-shaped temple on a trajectory to pulverize their god-king, who\u2019s a pumpkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s set in an imagined community of women where they worship a talking pumpkin,\u201d the London-based artist explains. \u201cEverything in their life revolves around and is dictated by the pumpkin, from the architecture to their dress, or undress rather! Whether the Gourd is benevolent or malevolent is undisclosed \u2014 potentially it is both. It\u2019s a playful look at our perceptions of value, ritual and worship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/isabel-rock\/art\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_6_master-713x950.jpeg\" alt=\"A detail of women in Gourd, 2022, by Isabel Rock\" class=\"wp-image-412993\" style=\"width:675px\" width=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_6_master-713x950.jpeg 713w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_6_master-263x350.jpeg 263w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_6_master-90x120.jpeg 90w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_6_master-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_6_master-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_6_master-700x933.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_6_master.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A close-up view of some of the women in <em>Gourd<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Rock, who received a master\u2019s degree in drawing and printmaking from the Royal College of Art in 2008, finds inspiration in a variety of narrative art sources, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/india-miniature-painting\/\">Indian miniatures<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/japanese-woodblock-prints\/\">Japanese woodcuts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/children-book\/\">children\u2019s books<\/a>, graphic novels, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/william-hogarth\/\">William Hogarth<\/a> portraits and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/paula-rego\/\">Paula Rego<\/a> paintings and prints. Still, the animated line work, surreal sense of humor and outlandish mythologies in Rock\u2019s creations are all her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Gourd<\/em> was partly inspired by a Japanese fairytale-slash-ghost story about a giant foot that crashes through the roof of a bathhouse. The only way to get rid of it is to wash it,\u201d Rock says. \u201cI see the foot as representing the Great White Patriarchy and how the need to dominate \u2014 rather than collaborate \u2014 can be so destructive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/isabel-rock\/art\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabel_Rock_2_master-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Isabel Rock painting at home in London\" class=\"wp-image-412996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabel_Rock_2_master-1.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabel_Rock_2_master-1-528x350.jpeg 528w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabel_Rock_2_master-1-950x630.jpeg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabel_Rock_2_master-1-120x80.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabel_Rock_2_master-1-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Isabel_Rock_2_master-1-365x241.jpeg 365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rock in the act of creating<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>If Rock\u2019s brushwork looks different from almost anything in mainstream contemporary art, maybe that\u2019s because she uses a special squirrel-hair implement from India to paint the fine, squiggly lines we see in compositions like <em>Gourd<\/em>. Her drawings, paintings, prints and collages are packed with chaotic motion, which adds greater depth and action to the fairy tales she spins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The uniqueness of Rock\u2019s style has earned her sold-out shows, as well as honors and awards. Just last month, she won the biannual Evelyn Williams Drawing Award at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition, which comes with a cash prize, as well as a solo show at Hastings Contemporary.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/isabel-rock\/art\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_5_master.jpeg\" alt=\"A detail of the pumpkin king Gourd, 2022, by Isabel Rock\" class=\"wp-image-412999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_5_master.jpeg 1400w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_5_master-467x350.jpeg 467w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_5_master-950x713.jpeg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_5_master-120x90.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_5_master-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gourd_5_master-1244x933.jpeg 1244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A detail of the pumpkin god-king in <em>Gourd<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cIsabel has always been a storyteller,\u201d says Laura Williams, cofounder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/art-1821\/\">Art 18\/21<\/a>, in Norfolk, England, which represents Rock. \u201cShe challenges her viewers in a direct but almost Buddhist manner. Her work does not demand you agree, but it offers you the opportunity to consider your view.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Buddhism and <em>Gourd<\/em> both remind us with a wink, everything is impermanent. 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