'Surfacing' Art Journal

04/02/2010

dark queenie

Filed under: Photographers, Studio — Tags: , — Lesley @ 1:03 pm

Inky dress aka Queenie has been removed from the pinboard.  I’m glad to see it go in a way it really did look desolate.   Tucked away I can now work on several images I took over a period of time.   This is as black as I want to go at present.  Black can be so unrelenting.

I’ve been looking at an old book of photographs by  photographer Deborah Turbeville‘ -  ‘Studio St. Petersburg’.  Dark, grainy, gritty stuff.  I’ve enclosed a link to her website but this isn’t actually representative of the pictures in my book.  Maybe a little in places.  I am drawn to her work, staged, artifice, serious.

Deborah Turbeville was originally a fashion photographer and although these pictures have gravitas there is a hint of capriciousness about them if that is the correct word.  So I’ve left a little colour in some of my images.  After all no one wants to be brought down by their own work.

‘Dark Queenie’ Lesley Bricknell (2010)

29/01/2010

relicta

Filed under: photo image, work in progress — Tags: — Lesley @ 12:31 pm

‘Relicta’ -all that remains.  A title borrowed from Alison Marchant’s installation shown last year. Worked sporadically on cutting and snipping inky dress now re-named ‘Queenie’.  Queenie is my alter ego the one that steps out from my usual polite exterior.  Queenie is imperious, ascendant.  Time to go sweetie.   Or at least be contained in some way.  For the time being a heap of shredded fabric.  I’ve several more old wedding dresses to follow.  Maybe not this particular route although I am fascinated by the damage the dress can sustain.  Black & white images seems to suit these acts of disrepair.  Just how far can I push it until the image is obliterated?  And is a faint tinge of colour just a little more attractive?

Lesley Bricknell, 'Dark Queenie', 2010

12/01/2010

inky dress

Filed under: Studio, work in progress — Tags: , — Lesley @ 1:36 pm

I know exactly where this piece is going so no further elaboration needed at this stage.  The actual dress is going to be pinned on the 6′ foot pinboard Steve made for me.  The only present on my Christmas wish list.  It’s good to work in black and white again and the pinboard is a really useful size.  When I photograph on the floor of the studio I get distortion due to the lens.  Not always desirable.

Lesley Bricknell (2009) ‘inky’ dress work in progress

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