I’m really pleased to be able to say that Millennium Images are now handling reproduction rights for selected images from my portfolio. Representing an interesting range of amazing photographers Millennium sells reproduction rights and arranges commissions.
There are more images available on the Millennium website – if you are interested in using my work for commercial purposes please either search for me at Millennium, or contact me directly if you can’t find what you’re looking for there.
Ellen Davis-Walker’s review looks at the great range of work in this show curated by Shiri Shalmy with Rowan Arts, and considers the juxtaposition of mine and Mum Ghose’s piece:
“In Bag for a new Mum Ghose manages to capture a similar sense of isolation. Her torn up shredded handbag hangs suspended from a pillar, with keys, chain and dummy spilling from its torn centre. The sense of disjuncture between the outward image of ‘containment’ and security evoked by the presence of the handbag and the inner turmoil it conceals provides an interesting echo with Nicola Jayne Maskrey’s Ophelia Series. Using an over-exposed photograph of an anonymous female, Maskrey seeks to explore the edges of sanity and emotional turmoil. Although on the one hand still and peaceful, Ghose and Maskrey nonetheless succeed in bringing an unmistakable air of violence to their work which see conventional notions of the feminine being ruthlessly unravelled.”
Ophelia #1 from the series Ophelia #1-6
The exhibition is on until 31st October at Resource for London, 356 Holloway Rd, London N7 6PA.
Exhibition opening hours Monday – Friday 8am to 5pm.
The Maya Centre has invited Bekki Perriman and myself to exhibit our work as part of the launch of it’s new home in Islington!
The launch is on 19th September, with patrons Melissa Benn, and MP Jeremy Corbyn joining the celebrations.
The Maya Centre provides free long term counselling and psychological support to women who have experienced severe trauma through domestic violence, abuse in childhood or overseas in war and conflict. It is a not for profit specialist counselling service run by women, for women.
Bekki and I are both showing work related to our award winning exhibitions at Islington Exhibits 2013 – in my case it’s 5 of the original prints from the Chasing Shadows series.
Chasing Shadows – steps
To see more images from the series take a look at my website
The exhibition is available for viewing by appointment only, please contact me for more information.
Simon Warwick Green, one of the most interesting and unusual artists I have ever worked with, is making a new film – Jelly Snakes. Simon’s films are like nothing else you’ve ever seen.
Jelly Snakes is one of eight projects selected from around the world by the prestigious Binger Writers and Producers FilmLab 2013 www.binger.nl
It’s a feature length comedy about a 16-year old Brian Eno enthusiast, who tries to escape his dysfunctional family life, by listening to Eno, making his ‘sound sculptures’ and attempting to seduce a 35-yr-old mother-of-two who lives next door.
Simon’s raising funds for the project on indiegogo, to find out more about the project and how to donate click here.
In addition to a credit and a preview screening he is thanking donors with limited edition prints, signed music videos and original artworks. Prints include a limited edition run of this film still photograph that I made for his film The Frozen Pond:
Film still from ‘The Frozen Pond’ by Simon Warwick Green
If you have any questions about the project or the artworks, videos and prints contact Simon directly via Facebook or tumblr, or twitter
The Women’s Work exhibition opens this week at Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA.
The exhibition launches with a celebratory event on Wednesday 11th, 5-7pm, and then runs until the end of October. For more information and opening times go to: http://www.therowanartsproject.com/whats_on
Organised in partnership by Rowan Arts with Trust for London and curated by Shiri Shalmy, the exhibition Women’s Work features work by emergent and established Islington artists exploring women’s cultural, social, political and domestic lives.
I’ve two images in the show – the first two in my Ophelia series of limited edition polaroid emulsion lifts.
Here’s Ophelia #1. I’m also very pleased to say thank you to Rowan Arts for choosing Ophelia #2 as one of the promotional images for the show!
Ophelia #1 from the series Ophelia #1-6. Limited edition polaroid emulsion lifts onto water colour paper.
These are original Polaroid Emulsion Lifts onto acid free water colour paper. Signed recto, mounted on conservation grade board. Each print is unique and handmade by me.
Shot underwater, the photographs are made into Polaroid 669 prints and soaked in a hot water bath to lift the emulsion containing the image from the paper beneath. The emulsion is then floated onto water colour paper and arranged into position. The very nature of the process continues the theme of the subject matter, and ensures that each print is completely unique in its tones and arrangement.
Image size – approximately 12cm x 9cm, mount size A3. Total edition run of 30 sets.
If you’re interested exhibiting or buying my work please click here to get in touch.
Thanks to Rowan Arts and Islington Exhibits 2013 for giving me the opportunity; this installation is something I’d wanted to create for a long time.
Here are some documentary images, and some footage (without sound), and a record of viewer comments.
Images:
Chasing Shadows – time based installation – documentation 1
Chasing Shadows – time based installation – documentation 2
Some of the lovely comments left by visitors:
“Exquisitely, skilfully crafted photographs. I love the movement, the merging of one image and sense into another. You have a gift for finding such serene beauty in the easy to pass by scenes of everyday life.”
“I liked the rambling impact of nature against buildings. The urban mundanity and beauty, emphasised by plants, trees, shadows, walls, windows makes my senses dream.”
“It perfectly demonstrates how things are really out of our control.”
“Has a strangely compelling quality – the way the images move through a journey – and each time you look you find yourself drawn in further.”
“I love the way the prints almost pour into each other. It’s very hypnotic.”
“It is wonderful the way that very ordinary everyday things are transformed into something very mysterious.”
“I could feel the same dreamlike gaze that you must have had on your night walk. It took me back to memories of my own walks at night time – the larger than life plants, the dark leaves but bright flowers. For some reason I find the vegetation says more at night and that really came across through the texture and light and shade.”
Footage:
I had a great time meeting people and seeing/hearing their responses, and I learned so much more about the work from those interactions. Thanks everyone!
To see the full series take a look at my website. If you’re interested exhibiting or buying my work please click here to get in touch.
If you want to find out more about Islington Exhibits 2013 take a look at this video
I’ll be exhibiting the series ‘Ophelia #1-6″ at the forthcoming exhibition Women’s Work.
Organised by Rowan Arts the exhibition is of work by women artists who live, work, or have a strong connection to Islington, and will explore women’s cultural, physical, domestic or professional realm in a bold and engaging way.
As well as commissioning my first solo show, Rowan Arts selected one of my photographs to use as the poster image for the whole Islington Exhibits festival! Here are some examples…
From 15th-31st July 2013 Chasing Shadows will be shown as a large scale time based installation – a solo show as part of Islington Exhibits 2013. For more information on the exhibition click here.
The installation, in an otherwise uninhabited space, is a large scale single screen projection in which frozen moments are re-presented as transitory echoes of the original, each dissolving into the next in a slow, rhythmic loop.
This is a test of the projection at the point of near completion. The projection is lined up exactly onto an area of the wall painted white, which is what makes it stand out so vividly from its surroundings.
Chasing Shadows – shutters (test – time based installation)
The exhibition was commissioned as the winner of one of two Artists Awards. For more information on the Artists Awards click here.
The exhibition is open every day from 10am-6pm every day until 31st July, at Unit 38 The Studios, Hornsey Street, London N7 8GR. Information here.
For more information on the exhibitions all across Islington click here. There are also curated walks and events, including guided talks of the Award Winners show. For information click here.
Islington Exhibits is produced by Rowan Arts with support from Cripplegate Foundation, Arts Council England and Islington Council.
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