Sarah Tulloch I work with a variety of found photographic materials including 35mm slides, 16mm film and photograph collections. I have an interest in everyday or anonymous subjects, the effect of juxtaposition and the re-used photograph as trace removed from its context. My collected archive includes a huge number of family albums. In my hands images are re-ordered and morph from specific to generic, new ways to categorize emerge naturally, Portrait, Cut Series, Fold... These ' tiny, linked moments [that evidence] how we mark time on this earth'1 become a challenge and fascination to me. I seek to create works that have one foot in the imagination and one foot in the source imagery. The contingent nature of the source material allows me to re-use and re-invent. My influences include photomontage artists from Hannah Hoch to John Stezaker. I use juxtaposition, cuts and tears and am interested in what Ranciere identifies as the dual nature of the aesthetic image, the possibility to simultaneously be a ‘cipher of history and interruption to it’. Supported by Arts Council England I have developed a working process that allows me to use scale to unhinge the customary relationship to photographs normally handled in an album or the palm of the hand. Details of the surface texture that were previously invisible extend an open-handed invitation to look closer and to appreciate a different spatial relationship to the work. This large-scale work entitled Cut Series is currently showing in RIFT at Baltic 39. Recent exhibitions include Terra Incognita by MIMA Emerging Curators and Poster show by Plus Arts Projects, the Mayor's Parlour, London. New work, Newspaper heads was recently shortlisted for Jerwood Encounters: Family Politics and showcased on the Photoworks website. Sarah lives and works in Newcastle and has
a studio at The New Bridge Project. Further Links: http://www.http://www.thenewbridgeproject.com |
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