Fleeced

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced II (detail). Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced II. Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced I (detail). Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced I. Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced III (detail). Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced III. Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced IV (detail). Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced IV. Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced V. Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced V (detail). Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced VI. Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced VI (detail). Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced VII (detail). Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced VII. Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm.

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced VIII (detail). Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm

Ann-Marie Tully, Fleeced VIII. Cotton waste and thread on Fabriano. 430mm x 380mm

The Fleeced (cotton waste and thread on paper drawings) reference popular idioms that apply the sequestered lives of sheep and lambs to human experiences of victimisation. The expression ‘fleeced’ is used to reference a situation where someone has been stolen from or overcharged etc. In using this expedient expression little or no regard is afforded to the industrialised slaughter of the animals whose names and experiences are rhetorically ‘offered up’. The silhouette textile rendering of the fleeced series speaks to this ‘faceless’ reduction.