Neglect

In this current world of uncertainty, I can always rely on image making to express my ideas and concepts. I am a photographic visual artist and educator in FE from Leicester UK.

 

My project work often explores narrative, still life and portraiture, whilst embracing personal memories, sense of being, and nostalgia. I use a range of creative processes, both digital and darkroom to realise my projects.

 

I am currently drawn to using old slide (transparency) mounts in my work as they feel like a portal to the past and a frame to the present. I often conceptually reconstruct scenarios whilst exploring daily life though symbolism and visual language.

 

Many of my latest works are surrounded by the frustration of lockdown dystopia, identity and an ever-changing family. Collections, artefacts, portraiture merge and collide with memorabilia and aphoristic humour to express my passions, annoyances and messages on life. To me, the mundane is never mundane.

They say necessity is the mother of invention, when faced with an extended periods of remoteness from normality at home. Confined to my immediate surroundings I looked for alternative ways to creative a personal response to these unprecedented times.

 

I found it was easy to be absorbed by the mundane, this triggered a photographic connection to my living space, personal possessions and family.

 

‘Neglect’ is part of a series of photographic works that has been created from observations and selected surveillance during the enforced lockdown. The juxtaposition of images/slides and backgrounds create a unique way of documenting the relationship between home life, environment and personal possessions in these unique times.

 

A portal to the past and a window of the present. These pictures
 allow us to consider a deeper relationship to how we perceive pictorial traditions and the family album. The physical space and immediate surroundings in which we live can impact how we feel emotionally, this has been one of the many psychological challenges of being confined to home.

Photography

42x52cm

Framed