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    Blurred image of person wearing a cotton dress, Polaroid of a woman wearing a hat, cardboard cut out of a woman's face wearing glasses.
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    C, You’re a Cutie Full of Charm (Dress: 3), Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones, 2023, dead grandma’s cotton dress, Polaroid, paper fig pasties, cardboard cut out, 42 cm x 59.4 cm

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    Button with the words "NOT TECHNICALLY A PERSON" on it.
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    Curtain i (detail), Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones, 2024, mixed media, 132.5 cm x 150 cm 34.9 cm

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    Two objects, side by side on a wall.
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    After, Before, Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones, 2024, found object, plywood, 20.5 cm x 47.5 cm x 12 cm

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    Person wearing a cape with the visible words "TO WAIT FOR /CALL AND TELL /SOMEONE HAD DIED / I AM A SIZE 7 SHOE / I HAVE ONLY SEEN MY MUM CRY TWICE"
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    Two Truths and a Lie, i, Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones, 2023, performance costume digital print on cotton linen, 67 cm x 97 cm

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    Installation 3 black picture frames on a wooden floor,  a small jar of marmalade on top of them in one corner, and a 4th frame balancing at an angle
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    Marmalade, Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones, 2024, mixed media, 30 cm x 40 cm x 20 cm

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Marla-Sunshine Kellard-Jones – BA/BFA

My practice employs universal archetypes, symbols, and commonly enacted rituals as means of opening discussions around often unspoken and inescapable aspects of life, such as death and familial relations.