About Wee Moody Judy:

Judy Maxwell-McNicol is a Scottish born, London-based artist. She graduated from Paris College of Art in 2018 with a 1st class Bachelors degree in Fine Art . Judy is currently studying a Masters Degree in Fine Art at The City and Guilds of London Art School.

Judy is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice blends ready-made objects and personal craft. Typically, she approaches her practice first through the exploration of a concept and next through a playful material enquiry which embraces casting, painting and printmaking processes, rubber, resin, glass and ready made objects. The use of readymades is often intended to evoke shared histories and connections. Utilising that commonality, the artist then works to overthrow our initial familiarises and conception by adding to or altering them in a way that is humorous and uncomfortable. 

Judy’s thematic research-based practice is typically a blend of cultural and personal histories. Influenced by her own life experiences as a Queer woman, her research often focuses on the historical oppression of women and Queer people through Western history, and how its trickle-down effect still affects us and the society we live in today. The artworks are typically created as a response to these historical facts and present day circumstances. She plays with polarities of conservatism and queerness, politeness and misbehaviour, virtuousness and sinfulness by overtly subverting the (Western) cultural meanings carried by objects, images and words. The power of laughter is invoked in an attempt to break through the self-defensive walls of politeness and to open up honest conversation, reflection and feeling.

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