Final weekend guests to Tate Britain obtained extra figurative artwork than maybe they’d bargained on when Neo Naturists Jennifer and Christine Binnie and Wilma Johnson took the gallery by storm with a unadorned lecture adopted by an impromptu “flash” within the Duveens Galleries and the exhibition Girls in Revolt! (till 7 April). The lecture was a part of a programmed “Sunday Social” by which artists featured within the exhibition had been invited to answer the Tate’s assortment. The Neo Naturists’ response was “Nudes within the Tate”, a performance-lecture which concerned every of the trio portray their bare physique to resemble a selected feminine nude from the Tate’s holdings and to discuss their alternative.
Wilma Johnson was Seated Nude: The Black Hat by Philip Wilson Steer, Jennifer Binnie the multicoloured nymph in Chris Ofili’s Evening with a Satyr whereas Christine Binnie embodied Adam, Eve and the serpent from James Barry’s Temptation of Adam. The trio agreed that making these decisions was not simple, as nearly all of Tate’s feminine nudes include idealised pictures made by males. Nonetheless this time the NN’s bodily show was emphatically on their phrases because the sixty-something trio left the lecture podium to reveal all within the lofty Duveens and pose earlier than their very own artworks depicting their youthful Eighties selves in Girls in Revolt! Do girls should be bare to get into the Tate Gallery? Once they name the pictures, you betcha!
