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Research Task – Justine Varga – Maternal Line (P.123)

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As part of the research for this section we are encouraged to find examples of photographers or artists who create portraits without including the human figure. One of the artist I have come across is Justine Varga, whose work, Maternal Line won the Olive Cotton award, named after the pioneering Austrialian modernist photographer of the 1930s and 40s, Olive Cotton (1911-2003); in 2017. The work was controversial, partly because it is not a traditional, figurative portrait. Partly because instead of taking a tradional picture of her grandmother, Varga instead asked her grandmother to draw and spit on a a piece … Continue reading Research Task – Justine Varga – Maternal Line (P.123)

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Penny Klepuszewska – Living Arrangements

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Penny Klepuszewska’s collection Living Arrangements was created in response to Kelpuszewska reading about the increasing averge age of the population and wanting to create a work that explored how ageing people living alone were affected by this trend and how the home, often considered as a place of sanctuary can instead become an island of isolation for some elderly people. The work, first shown in 2006, was featured in Tate Britain’s first ever photography exhibition, How We Are: Photographing Britain in 2007. Further images from the series can be found here. The series is shot in a similar style with … Continue reading Penny Klepuszewska – Living Arrangements