Show Us Your Teeth

Artist Collective

2014 - ongoing

Show Us Your Teeth is a performance and installation based artist collective founded by Amy Claire Mills, Bailee Lobb, and Kate Bobis in 2014.

The collective creates work around identity, masking, and performative femininity.

Constructions

2018

In Construction, Show Us Your Teeth explore fluidity and incompleteness of personal identity, and the role disguise and camouflage play in the perception of who we are.

In Tableau, performers oscillate between exhibitionist and camouflaged displays of self-expression. The performers move freely between environments in the gallery marking the consciousness with which many people disguise their identities, camouflaging themselves in the encoded visual language of different communities to survive. Piece by Piece see’s the artists work to piece them(selves) together, attempting to complete a series of five 1000 piece self-portrait puzzles from memory.

Landscape image of a multi-coloured floral backdrop with a section of confetti leading into a glittery navy section in the centre right, and top left. A white woman stands sideways facing towards the left of the frame in front of the wall wearing a pink leotard and floral wreaths. Her right arm is raised in front of her face and she is looking at it. Her head and parts of her body are disguised by flowers and vines, blending into the floral wall.

Image from the live performance of Tableu

Bailee disappears into the floral wall in Tableu.

Photo courtesy of Kudos Gallery.

Image of a pink table with tropical orange PVC on top with orange flowers. On top of this are puzzle pieces that show images of faces, and teeth.

Detail of Piece by Piece puzzles

Faces of the members of Show Us Your Teeth emerging from the puzzles.

Photo courtesy of Kudos Gallery.

Exhibition Information

Complete Exhibition

Constructions. 20 February - 10 March 2018. Kudos Gallery, Paddington, NSW, Australia.

Selected Works

Tableu live performance. 22 March 2018. The Other Art Fair, Australian Technology Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Garden of Eve

2018

In Garden of Eve, Show Us Your Teeth explore performative femininity, and sexuality.

These images were later used to create the puzzles for Piece by Piece.

Show Us Your Teeth cuddle puddle in the pumpkin patch. The three artists are wearing light flesh colour leotards with smiles featuring big white teeth surrounded in bright lipstick over their breasts and groins. The artists are wearing jewellery by Doodad and Fandango.

Show Us Your Teeth cuddle puddle, featuring jewellery by Doodad and Fandango.

Portrait image of Amy, a white woman with mid-brown hair. She is kneeling on the grass facing away from the camera, and looking over her right shoulder showing a large tooth shaped earring. Draped on her back is a waist length tooth necklace, and her bottom is covered by a red mouth, with teeth bared. Amy has tattoos on her back and right arm.

Solo image of Amy, featuring jewellery by Doodad and Fandango.

Portrait image of Bailee, a white woman with short red hair lying down on the grass with pumpkin leaves on either side of her head. She is wearing large white perspex teeth earrings, and a large glittering mouth with teeth bared over her breasts.

Solo image of Bailee, featuring earrings by Doodad and Fandango.

BAILEE LOBB

Show Us Your Teeth

Constructions 2018

Exhibition Information

Garden of Eve 2018

Constructions

2018

Garden of Eve

2018