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    A wooden frame draped in red fabric curtains with a series of nooses made from barbed wire hanging in the centre. Behind the wooden frame is a figure covered in purple fabric and in front of the frame is a giant spider wearing high heel shoes with an exposed brain and crown of barbed wire.
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    A Showstopper Execution, Di Jacques-Kershaw, 2024, mixed media, sculpture

    The central theme of the work is the idea of suffering as a public spectacle. Using my past experience in the sex work industry as an emotive basis, the work attempts to interrogate acts self-depreciation and similar destructive behaviours exhibited by the socially disadvantaged, which are then used to entertain the privileged classes.The creation of a theatrical stage where the destruction of the self takes place through performance and punishment.

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    Two figures, a man and woman, in a drawn/cartoon room.
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    Tommy and Mommy, Di Jacques-Kershaw, 2020, video

    A satirical take on the idealistic depictions of the domestic space in the media.
    View video on YouTube.

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    Colour drawing of fairground with clown in the centre in top half of drawing, bottom half shows anatomical drawing of lungs, graveyard and trussed bird, pipes and blood.
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    Fairground, Di Jacques-Kershaw, 2024, drawing, pencil and fineliner 16.5 x 23.4 cm

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    Colour drawing of inside of church: open coffin, dead birds, woman and two children kneeling, religious figure, burning goat.
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    Di Jacques-Kershaw, Di Jacques-Kershaw, 2024, drawing, pencil and fineliner, 16.5 x 23.4 cm

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Di Jacques-Kershaw – BA/BFA

I am based in North London and my work is primarily concerned with the behaviours that exist between the divided social classes, both in reality and in media portrayal. I use the absurd to satirise social standards that isolate the divergent and the macabre to figuratively depict instances of chaos that arise from paternalistic relationships. My work is mixed media, sculpture, and film.