ALTERNATIVE PRIDE
Experience a perfectly heady blend of Patriarchy and consumerism with the 'Divine Blush Box'. Imagine diving inside a luxurious pink satin-covered gift box to discover the ultimate worship experience. Yes! The Pope's hand resting on a doily lies deep inside waiting for your kiss. The celestial red interior awaits and diving in to kiss the Pope's ring allows you to embrace your adventurous libidinal side while performing a virtual worship. ‘The Pink Pontiff Worship’ experience is designed to captivate and excite. This dance of elegance and divinity need no longer live only in the imagination, let it become a reality with the 'Divine Blush Box'.
Thanks to Trans Alliance Cambridge for hosting us and to Cambridge Furs 16+ Furmeets for joining us, at Cambridge Alternative Pride. August 2024
SPECIAL DRESSING
Mrs Fubbs Special Dressing Enjoy it four ways; wear it, feel it, squirt it*, buy it. A jaunty stroll through the pleasures of consumerism, love child of capitalism, and all that it brings to the body and psyche.
Drop-in Cut & Slut Zine Workshop and informal discussion; Is Capitalism Privatising Our Privates? Tea and Cake. 2 - 4pm 9th June 2024.
Exclusively at Artworks Gallery
Click 'WATCH NOW' to see selected work from our show.
*DISCLAIMER:
Mrs Fubbs cannot be held responsible for any damage to hats, coats, umbrellas and other personal items, caused by squirting performed by visitors while attending this exhibition.
MRS FUBBS ON THE PICKET LINE
Mrs Fubbs comes to
the
rescue with tea
and cakes
for our Nurses in specially designed gowns. You saw them here first! The bespoke
peice,
beautifully
made and
warn by Cathy in the video below is called: "All the times I have used the
NHS". Thanks
to Film
Maker, Kay
Goodridge
you
can watch
Cathy Dunbar
operate in style, explaining the inspiration for her cutting edge, patient gown,
vibe. A
design that
is both
functional and fashionable.
The Mrs Fubbs' Picket Line range was created to wear at Addenbrookes hospital
Cambridge
in support of
the Nurses
and Jr Doctors. You'll turn heads with our unique and edgy look. Don't miss any
opportunity to express
your
personality and creativity with Mrs Fubbs' Picket Line Couture.
MRS FUBBS COLLECTIVE
Get your kit on at Mrs Fubbs' Parlour! Check out the Mrs Fubbs' collection; now featuring our new nostalgic and evocative Duvet range. Working from home inspired us to take our haute couture Birthday Suit collection to another level. We are gearing up for our autumn campaign and facting up on body beautiful tips. At Mrs Fubbs' Parlour not only are we on top of our game, we embody exactly what it means to have a body in 2022.
WOMAN DISTRACTED BY A SAUSAGE
(please click)
FRONT BOTTOMS AT STRAWBERRY FAIR
Every summer, Cambridge is host to Strawberry Fair, Europe's biggest free, one day festival. In collaboration with artists; Carmela Arbelaez-McCarthy, Cathy Dunbar and Helen Judge we took Front Bottoms at Mrs.Fubbs' Parlour to the Strawberry Fair Arts Area. This was euphemism on a grand scale, we dressed up, shared tea and dainties such as Little Shrimp and Split Baps and discussed the female form, from a feminist perspective, with over two hundred guests.
INTRODUCING MRS FUBBS PARLOUR
Mrs Fubbs Parlour is an artist collective staging playful, interactive events to disrupt. Their works encompass painting, sculpture, electronics, performance, fashion, and video, often blending these mediums in unexpected ways. As ‘Mrs Fubbs Parlour’, they celebrate the deviant body, pushing the limits of good taste by employing the absurd, the surreal, and the anarchic as forms of liberation from convention. Acknowledging real-life chaos and anomaly, Mrs Fubbs Parlour light-heartedly challenges the messaging and imagery of advertising. Join them in celebrating the deviant body
JANE HELLINGS
Socially engaged artist/curator Jane Hellings attempts, with varying degrees of success, to eradicate hierarchy from her practice. She chooses, in preference to a dedicated studio space, to work from home where her making is immersed in day to day domestic disorder. Hellings' processes are; low-tech, everyday, non-specialist, her materials, rarely purchased from specialist art suppliers, are predominantly recycled and re-purposed. She frequently shows work outside the conventional gallery space and often works collaboratively.
CATHY DUNBAR
For over 30 years I worked as a self taught designer and dressmaker to the Cambridge intelligentsia, operating a sliding scale so that everyone could realise their dream outfit. After taking a degree in The Study of Art at ARU (APU), I re-discovered making art, as a joyful and healing process. Since then I have collaborated with many other artists, been involved in and instigated numerous art projects around Cambridge and, at every opportunity, encouraged the general public to find their creative spot. I am a founder member of The ‘Freudian Slips’, a safe space for women to realise their creativity and to perform and co-founder of the 'Society of Xtras' with Helen Judge and for six years, I co-ordinated the Arts Area (Eastern Bloco) at Cambridge Strawberry Fair. I am a socially engaged artist, a feminist and visual activist.
MISS FROU-FROU
Miss Frou-frou's artistic journey delves into the realm of social beliefs, pervasive conditioning, and the ever-influential world of social media intertwined with platforms like YouTube. Over an extended period, her work has been a profound exploration of power dynamics, inequality, class, gender issues, and consumerism both within the art world and society at large. Finding inspiration in the nuances of everyday life, global affairs, trauma studies, and her own struggles with mental health, Miss Frou-frou instinctively reacts through her art, offering captivating creations that prompt contemplation about how society imprints restrictive beliefs upon our way of thinking. Through a masterful blend of imagery and materials, she embarks on a daring journey of investigation and challenge, inviting her audience to confront these deeply ingrained notions. Objects, mixed imagery, performances, and videos serve as the mediums through which she skillfully exposes the impact of conditioning and the persuasive force of social media, including platforms like YouTube. In the embrace of Miss Frou-frou's art, according to chat GPT: “ humor and playfulness intertwine with profound inquiry, guiding us on a transformative voyage of enlightenment. Through this whimsical and insightful lens, we are prompted to break free from the confines of limiting beliefs and embrace the delightful dance of life's complexities with newfound joy and understanding”. (doesn’t it sound good?) ;-)
HELEN JUDGE
"I like to mess with the conventions and expectations of various genres, formats, and visual languages, with a particular interest in horror, advertising and religious iconography. My academic journey includes a BA in History from Auckland University and an MA in Fine Art from Central St Martins College of Art and Design in London. This background informs my multidisciplinary approach, which spans performance, sculpture, film, and web art, although my primary passion lies in the moving image
I have showcased my work both nationally and internationally at galleries and festivals such as: Cambridge Junction, Wysing Arts, Temporary Contemporary in London, /Seconds, issue9 in London, The Big Chill in Bristol, Elektronentoto Kabinenschau in Düsseldorf, The Kitchen Gallery in Liverpool, Cinesonika 2 in Vancouver, and the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival."
My work can be found at xsif.com and helenmjudge.com
