I've been thinking about different ways I could hang the dolls that I've been making, either within an installation or displayed in a similar way to paintings. In the images below the dolls are hooked onto nails, and because of the lightness of the materials that I've used, they hold well and don't require any further support. I quite like them arranged in a series, but perhaps I need to be more experimental in terms of the way the figures look?

These are the most recent clay models I've been working on. I've tried to be more delicate with these compared to my last large-scale one, and i think they've turned out more successful because of this. I've tried to add an element of the surreal to each of them, with one of the figures having entwined legs, or an almost suffocating hair plait. Whilst making them, I was thinking about some of the diagnoses given to women in psychiatric hospitals in the 20th century such as 'Intense Vanity' - too much attention paid one's appearance was enough to prompt incarceration within a suitable institution.

Clay modelling

Here are a few of the clay models that I've been working on recently. The back three are all based on bought ornaments but the one closest to the front is imagined and i'm not sure if this one has been the most successful? I'm starting to get a feel for the material and enjoying working with clay, it feels good to be productive! I think i'm going to concentrate on working with clay for now and take a step back from the drawings, I was started to get a bit fed up of them yesterday.