Book 63  Doll Scroll
Gilks, J and  Penn, C.  (2009) (Fig. 62). Doll Scroll.    Unique collaborative artist’s book. Scroll format. Mixed media on paper including drawing, painting, text and  sewing and collage.   8m x  21cm. Collection: Jeanette Gilks.

Gilks (2009) wrote that: 'this artwork was inspired by the ‘All Dolled Up’ scrolls done by my students, the Garret Artists, in response to workshops I held around 2004/2005.  As a child I never played with dolls as I found them sinister and alien. Now, oddly, in my 50’s I am making my own (ceramic) dolls and using them as metaphors to comment on various issues, both personal and public.'
I responded to the imagery on the scroll by firstly weaving the history of the doll through the images with text.  I already had a personal meaning to ‘doll’, used inn Harm Done (Book 31).    I had  described  the doll as “a small model of a human figure, used as a child’s toy representing a play thing used by an adult for its own pleasure”. I cut out various dolls Gilks had drawn and replaced them elsewhere in the scroll.  Words such as ‘displaced, misplaced and replaced’ were written next to the relocated dolls.
I also made extensive reference to Marilyn Monroe, the walking, talking, living/ dead real-deal doll. The scroll is visually complex with the images compacted and overlapping.  This reinforces the message of complexity which the subject of dolls seems to engender.