Maureen

Maureen was given her nan’s fox stole when she was in her second year of vet study at uni. Within weeks, it had cigarette holes burned in it, it was stained when used as a rag for mopping up alcohol and cooking spills, and its face was ripped off by her flatmate’s wire haired terrier. Later, having watched just one episode of The Repair Shop on TV, Maureen undertook to repair the stole herself; “How hard can it be?” was the last thought she had before the stole exploded due to a chemical reaction when she tried cleaning it in an acid bath in the university labs. Undaunted, she has found an acceptable work around is to drape the heavily sedated aforementioned wire haired terrier (with fake tail attached by paper clip) around her neck, and her nan never notices. Or pretends not to, because truth be told, she hated that stole and never wanted to set eyes on it again.

Maureen is also an articulated ceramic wall puppet and she is modelled by hand in stoneware clay, twice fired, decorated with ceramic glazes, and finished with a cold glaze. She is approximately 32 cm long, and can hang on the wall by nail, hook or tack.