Vanessa Baird

“ ..Through her distinctive fabulating idiom Baird weaves together escapes across the ocean, visual popular culture and everyday life, and the public is engulfed in a dramatic, grotesque and poetic tale of... ”

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KODE Art Museums of Bergen

“ ..By employing a style that draws on established narrative traditions and well-known folktale illustrations, Baird plays on both archetypes and stereotypes we are all familiar with... ”

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Kunstnernes Hus

“ ..Baird weaves a sizable catalogue of figures, events, and narratives, both familiar and foreign, into the wider tapestry of current affairs... ”

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Kunstnernes Hus

“ ..Several of the female characters in her works seem to share the artist’s facial features... ”

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The Göteborg Museum of Art

“ ..Recently, the artist has shifted her attention from caricatured, exaggerated depictions culled from the private sphere – not least the deterioration and powerlessness of the female body – to the external... ”

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Kunstnernes Hus