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Sarah Dolby

2016
60 x 60 cm
Oil on aluminium
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Inspired by my trip to New Orleans. A Casquette girl was one of the young women brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry in the 17th Century.
Normally women were supplied to the colonists by raking the streets of Paris for undesirables, or by emptying the houses of correction. The Casquette girls, however, were recruited from church charitable institutions, usually orphanages and convents, and, although poor, were practically guaranteed to be virgins. For this reason it later became a matter of pride in Louisiana to show descent from them. The first consignment reached New Orleans in 1728.

The Lady of Lafayette

2017
50 x 50 cm
Oil on aluminium
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Inspired by my trip to New Orleans. The Garden District in New Orleans has a surreal like quality to it. This is heightened by the Lafayette Cemetery which you are confronted with as soon as you step off the tram. With crows perched on tombstones you can't help but feel like you have been transported into a southern gothic novel. Nature is coiling itself around everything, the homes are incredible and the upheaved pavements pose many threats to ankles.

2017
60 x 60 cm
Oil on aluminium
sold

In Tennessee I visited Franklin where the historic Battle of Franklin took place. Through the telling of the history by the locals and their conversations about how their town had changed I learnt a lot about how they view and define themselves through these events. I tried to illustrate this reluctance of letting go of old entitled ideas and listening to the voices of the future - these spoken by the fantails.