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Work Type:photography
Date of work:2001
Materials:medium: photography

Measurements:height: 1 m

width: 1.5 m

Style Period:contemporary art
Subject:portrait, woman, memory, family history, time
Technique:photography
Collection:New Contemporaries
Description:
‘I have been recreating old photographs from our family albums or moments from memory. I’m trying to create what is already there, a fragment of life with the idea that once recreated I may also see the surrounding environment as well. Through this I experience the dissolution of boundaries, the permeability of time (…).’
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Source:Artist’s Statement. New Contemporaries 2003 submission form
Date of source:January 2003
Description:
‘You cannot see a face, hidden by hair the girls’ identity is concealed. What’s the age of the model, is she a child or adolescent? Perhaps she’s captured between both of these, unable to grow up. Absorbed, she gazes elsewhere: in a toyshop window, through a microscope. (…)’
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Source:Selectors’ comments: J.J. Charlesworth, Cerith Wyn Evans, Hayley Newman and Rebecca Warren. “Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003”, exhibition catalogue, Coventry, 2003
Date of source:2003