Acrylic, gouache, and watercolour pencil on canvas 72 × 36 in | 2026
Venus of Hohle Fels after Goya is part of the Feminine Antiquity series.
Drawing upon Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, this painting places the prehistoric Venus of Hohle Fels within Goya's meditation on reason and imagination. Historically, the association of women with emotion, intuition and even hysteria has been used to diminish their intellectual authority and exclude their voices from shaping society. By introducing light, colour and swans, the painting asks what becomes possible when women’s voices and ways of knowing historically dismissed as irrational are valued alongside reason.
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