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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University College London : B - Fine Art
Cast
Cast is a body of research exploring the potential of drawing to influence and extend a viewers reading and engagement with a series of photographs taken by me of unknown people, momentarily encountered on the streets of central London. The focus of the drawings were the heads and faces of these strangers. I combined drawing and photography in different ways, including scratching with an etching needle into the photographic surface, and placing pencil drawings next to photographic prints. The range of marks acted as if commentary to each stranger’s moments of quiet reflection, a way of ‘thinking into the photograph’.
Co-commissioned by Photoworks, Brighton & The Photographers’ Gallery, London, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England.
Solo exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery (2008) and Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg (2009) and selections from Cast were included in the group exhibition Pattern Recognition, City Gallery, Leicester (2009) and my solo exhibition Coax, Raum mit Licht, Vienna (2011) and Fotoforum West, Innsbruck (2011).
160 page monograph, Cast published February 2009 by Steidl and Photoworks, in collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery, ISBN 978-3-86521-727-1.
Press reviews and features in The Guardian, Photography Now, Art World, Metro, Londonist, Timeout, Westend Extra, The Times. Reviewed widely in the Swedish and Austrian press and television. Extensive advertising poster campaign across London Underground sites and across Gothenburg.
Photographer's Gallery viewing figures were 37,000 for Cast the largest visitor numbers recorded for a solo exhibition up to that date.
Talks at the Photographers’ Gallery 28/10/08, Hasselblad foundation 7/03/10, Brighton Photo Biennale 5/11/08.
Extending these ideas, in 2010 I was invited to make a permanent commission for the re-launch of the major Who am I? Gallery at The Science Museum, London, also commissioned for the Photographer’s Gallery large scale World in London exhibition, to coincide with the Olympics 2012.
