THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

A polished bronze body balances precariously on a chair back, arms outstretched. Fat Doris slumps exhausted in a wing-backed armchair and Honey Pie shows off her patent-leather pink platform shoes. There are a lot of kinky boots and dominatrix heels, but however impractical and improbable they are, they keep the figures tethered in the real. The chairs they squirm on go from mid-century modern to office generic, from bent plywood to chrome and steel.

Searle/Guardian, 2023