Artist Statement

"From a series of landscapes and figures, two separate photographs are superimposed, the image behind appearing to float as a net or veil on the surface by a process of hand drawing/erasing in the computer. One photograph depicts the back of a head, the other a landscape both taken in different locations and reconstructed within a single image.

Neither able to be fixed as a complete picture, the partial erasure of one reveals an incomplete picture of the other. The figures and landscapes are taken in different geographic locations and the enmeshing of the two explores the possibility of being simultaneously in more than one place at any one time.

The generic title of the work is 'Inside the View' – after a series of collages by Max Ernst.

I have developed this approach of a double time of image making, one being the instant of the taking of the photographs, and the other their subsequent reconstruction through touch and the labour of the hand, signalling a return to a more primitive and bodily experience.

The work has evolved from previous explorations of the sublime to an engagement with both the retinal and the digital, where the 'hand drawn/erased' element becomes the interface between the formal clichés of both landscape and portraiture particularly within the northern romantic tradition of painting."

Education

HDFA, Slade School, University College London

BA (Hons), University of Reading

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Gallery Harmonia, Jyvaskyla (Finland)

Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds (UK)

Le Parvis, Tarbes (France)

Impressions Gallery, York (UK)

Yard Gallery, Nottingham (UK)

Ffotogallery, Cardiff (UK)

Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London (UK)

Axel Thieme Galerie, Darmstadt (Germany)

Zinc Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden)

Gray Gallery, Greenville (NC)

Swansea City Library, Swansea (UK)

Selected Group Exhibitions

Chelsea Future Space, London (UK)

FSM Gallery, Florence (Italy)

Miss China Beauty, Paris (France)

Culturgest, Lisbon (Portugal)

Photo Espana, Madrid (Spain)

Gasworks, London (UK)

Galerie Ahlers, Gottingen (Germany)

Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London (UK)

Museum of Modern Art, Skopje (Macedonia)

Anderson O'Day Gallery, London (UK)

Publications and Press

Flash Art, Arts Review, Creative Camera, Women's Press Diary, Time Out, Portfolio Catalogue, Art Newspaper, Art Montly, Contemporary Visual Arts, Hotshoe International, Guardian Review, Photoworks Journal, 'Land Matters: Landscape Photography, Culture & Idenity (I.B.Taurus), 'Face — The New Photographic Portrait (Thames & Hudson), 'Stilled' (Iris & Ffotogallery), 'Masquerade' (Ffotogallery), 'Public Sightings' (Cornerhouse Publications).

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