Jemima and Dolly Brown

With synthetic twin sister and 'collaborator' Dolly Brown, Jemima Brown's practice comprises sculpture, photography and video projects. During time spent from 1998-99 working in Los Angeles as an artist in residence, accompanied by Dolly, at the University of California, Los Angeles, Brown's work became more of a 'collaboration' with Dolly. Against the odds Jemima sought an active role for her 'clone' in the making of the work, an endeavour which often appeared desperate or foolish, given that Dolly is a plastic doll cobbled together from sex doll parts, mannequin limbs and cast body parts from Jemima.