Dawn Brayford, Artist. Sketchs

Commentary:
A small sketch made for a larger piece on panel. I took the photocopy and made 2 pictures from the one, by cutting pieces out. The finished piece uses a picture of myself. This one uses a picture of the British lesbian artist Gluck, who worked mostly in the early part of the 20th Century. I called the piece Invert/pervert because at the time it was produced there was much debate in the media as to whether being gay was something you were born with, ie, you were 'inverted' a term first used by a British sexologist around the turn of the 20th century, or it was something you learned, that you became perverted into homosexuality. The picture illustrates the point that neither gives the whole picture, and my view that maybe there is an element of both in the make up of gay people. The splitting up of people into categories prevents straight people from seeing us as whole and as normal as anyone else.