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'Granny! Run Quick!' (2024)

As a part of BAMS Student Medal Competition.

Bronze Cast.

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“Granny! Run Quick!” is a medal made by Fine Art student Holly L. Tomlinson. This medal hearkens to the folklore of the lucky rabbit's foot, depicting the foot of a hare bound by twine to a human foot. Based upon the witch trials of Isobel Gowdie, the merging of hare and human symbolises the tale of witches shape shifting into hares. The foot of an unfortunate hare would be cut from the body of the witch so that she may then be persecuted upon returning to her human form. Rope wraps around the medal, treating it as if cuts from a butcher. In its depiction of transformation, as fur turns into skin, it satirically creates a magical spectacle of the butchering of dozens of hares and women in history as the feet of both is cleaved from the body and made into a bronze trophy- a medal in the form of a lucky token, bound to the history of fearmongering and feminine persecution. The title references an 1833 letter written by Anna Eliza Bray, with a tale of how a young boy earnt money by starting hares for hunters, in which the hare was his shapeshifted grandmother.

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