A Story of a Doll by Meredith Macleod is an artist book that references Nora the heroine in Henrik Ibsen’s play (1879) A Doll’s House and her struggles to achieve gender equality. Treated by her husband as no more than a doll or a songbird, Nora reshapes her future in the most dramatic way possible.

A Story of a Doll

$285

Meredith Macleod

Artist book. Found tin, celluloid doll, leather, thread, burnt book pages (A Doll’s House), fabric, black stand
2024

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A Story of a Doll by Meredith Macleod is an artist book that references Nora the heroine in Henrik Ibsen’s play (1879) A Doll’s House and her struggles to achieve gender equality. Treated by her husband as no more than a doll or a songbird, Nora reshapes her future in the most dramatic way possible.

You can see this work in Meredith’s solo online exhibition Meredith Macleod 2024

 

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