'Venus' sculpture

'Venus' sculpture

Inspired by Stone Age art, I researched the 'Venus' which was a teaching aid for young girls who were going through puberty. They had exaggerated breasts and hips which could teach young girls about the changes they would go through during puberty as well as motherhood. 

Using clay and collected twigs, I made up my own Venus which was small enough to be held, similar to a real teaching aid. I collected the twigs as this is all that the people living in the stone age would have as there was not as much knowledge and technology like there is today. I used some of these wooden materials to carve and mark the patterns in my Venus sculpture like the examples that were found from the Stone age period.