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at work, waiting for the kettle to boil…

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Chasing Shadows in a Puritan Age

Friday is Art Day on FIPA!

Freedom in a Puritan Age is an online journal that publishes articles on the subject of liberty in contemporary society. They’re kick-starting their weekly Arts section (which will include T S Eliot prize winning poet, George Szirtes) with, err, me! Brilliant!

take a look here

Chasing Shadows – house

Chasing Shadows at Candid Arts Trust

I’m exhibiting Chasing Shadows at the Candid Arts Trust Mixed Media Show from 15th-20th June 2010. From 12-6pm daily at 3 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ

Here’s a flyer for the show:

And, amongst loads of other stuff including sculpture and illustration, here’s what you can go see in the flesh:

Chasing Shadows - steps

Chasing Shadows - window

Chasing Shadows - leaves

Chasing Shadows - fence

Chasing Shadows - shutters

All works for sale! for more info please feel free to get in touch

Adventures at the Foundry – documentation

A few photos from the exhibition of Adventures in a Suburban Garden at The Foundry on 17th January 2010.

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Helen McCookery came along and wrote the loveliest words about some of the images (and the rest of the event) here: http://www.mccookerybook.com/blog/2010/01/radio-joy-at-foundry-part-of-it-anyway.html

“Two of the screens glow orange with nasturtiums: how did they know I liked nasturtiums?

They provided me with a constant supply of little caterpillars to keep in jam jars when I was a little girl; they danced optimistically in the West-country sun at my ex-honeymoon; they flowered heroically through the deadly weeks when I was packing up our big house and getting ready to move on, exhausted by it all.
Their happy morning song of shades of orange, sung through autumn frosts and dismal rain, reminded me that life can be beautiful even when it is disguised as a nightmare.”

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The exhibition was part of a live broadcast by Radio Joy – go to http://www.bandofholyjoy.co.uk or http://radiojoy.co.uk/blog for more information, or to listen to their Sunday evening shows, from 7pm. You can also look at The Foundry’s own archive of the night here: http://www.foundry.tv/archive/events/100117.Radio_Joy/title/

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The Foundry is now set to close to make way for a hotel – read more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/03/foundry-gallery-set-to-close or go to http://www.foundry.tv

Adventures in vimeo

30 images from Adventures in a Suburban Garden, as exhibited at The Foundry as part of Radio Joy’s residence. This version is long and quiet – watch this space for a future update featuring a soundtrack from Inga Tillere.

If you don’t have the time/patience to sit still for 10 minutes you can also see a quick slideshow here: http://www.njmaskrey.com/#/adventures/4533658927

Take a look at www.radiojoy.co.uk, www.bandofholyjoy.co.uk, or www.foundry.tv for related work/information. Or contact me at www.njmaskrey.com to find out more about exhibitions, print sales or other work.

More Adventures… Showing in London

for one night only…

Adventures in a Suburban Garden will be showing at The Foundry, Great Eastern Street, London, on Sunday 17th January as part of a live broadcast by Radio Joy.

For more information go to http://www.radiojoy.co.uk or http://www.foundry.tv.

Here’s a few photos, more on the night…

Adventures in a Suburban Garden 2017

Adventures in a Suburban Garden 2020

Adventures in a Suburban Garden 2062

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Adventures in a Suburban Garden 3015

Adventures in a Suburban Garden 3050

Adventures in a Suburban Garden

New work in progress – sequel project to Chasing Shadows

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Adventures in a Suburban Garden 2030

Chasing Shadows exhibition!

7 images from Chasing Shadows are on display at the Acoustic Cafe, Newington Green, London N16.

All works are for sale – contact me for more information: www.njmaskrey.com

Chasing Shadows - shutters

Chasing Shadows - fence

Chasing Shadows - cables

Chasing Shadows - leaves

Chasing Shadows - window

Chasing Shadows - steps

Chasing Shadows - wire

Chasing Shadows is a night journey – a sleepwalk through a silent world bereft of people. As the quality of evening light transforms the everyday into a dreamlike state, familiar urban landscapes disappear underneath resilient vegetation.

Long exposure night photographs are hand printed using a lith technique (an alternative wet printing process) to create a degraded aesthetic closer to illustration than photography. The very nature of the process ensures that each image is visually unique, and in this instance the choice of a now discontinued fibre based paper enforces a single edition body of work.