After Studio Reproductions: 1929–1983MFA Submission, February 2025
Bracketed by the years of my grandmother’s birth and my own, Studio Reproductions is a composite space created to embody conversations between my grandmother, my mother, and me about our experiences in the commercial art industry from the 1940s to the present.

By combining analogue and digital design processes, I have created a series of simulated artefacts informed by research into the often-overlooked contributions of women in commercial art, especially within the fields of domestic decor and photographic finishing.

Recognising the impossibility of fully recovering lost forms—both physical and experiential—this work employs defamiliarization and the uncanny to explore the temporal and pluralistic nature of memory. 

These artefacts bear marks specific to the technologies used—or imitated—in their creation. Through their titles, their materials form a map of their mixed provenance. 

Work associated with locations on the map can be viewed on the following pages:

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©2025Lizzie Parker