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PHOTOGRAPHIC AND DIGITAL ART BY LONDON BASED ARTIST LYNNE COLLINS
      
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Lynne Collins began her career as a sculptor and for twenty years worked in the film and television industry as an artist and model maker. She went on to make short art films and then began to explore the medium of still photography. Lynne is a self taught photographic artist.

It is her experience of working on film sets and also her childhood memories of spending time with her mother, a buyer in the film industry, that Lynne draws upon when making her photographs. Using abandoned Victorian buildings as her backdrop, Lynne superimposes a different image, often in complete contrast with her found location, to make a new narrative. In her series "On The Edge of Perception" Lynne brings together two images, one of a woodland, the other an empty interior offering the possibility for nature to rejuvenate such forgotten places.

In her most recent series "The Trespasser" she has returned to the discarded spaces of derelict buildings and taking inspiration from the seventeenth Dutch masters has overlaid these bleak interiors with sumptuous still lifes of wine and food, which are also abandoned. By bringing these two scenes together Lynne is seeking to offer a commentary on modern life as one of over-consumption and decadent wastefulness.

Several of Lynnes Trespasser images can be purchased from Troika Editions an online gallery which showcases exciting and beautiful work by photographers with a pedigree.

" Bridget Coaker. Curator and editor. Troika Editions." More about Troika

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition. 22 Gallery. 22 Peter Street. Soho. London. December 2009
The Association of Photographers Awards. AOP Gallery August 2009
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SOVERIEGN EUROPEAN ART PRIZE 2008
Sovereign Art Prize. Somerset House 2008
Shorditch House London. 2008
West of England Royal Academy Bristol 2008
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2008
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2007
Heathlands Exhibition Croydon Clock Tower 2006,
Signals Art Event 2006
Signals Art Event 2005
Signals Art Event Crystal Palace Artists group. 2004
Earthscape Art Exhibition, Hastings
An artists view Exhibition, Hastings Gallery.
Group Exhibition, Hastings Old Town.
Picture Palace gallery, solo show.
Cafe Lava. Solo show
Urban Art, Brixton.
The Brixton Ritzy (video)
Cafe Lava (video)
The John Price Film Club (video)
Schimatizo Film event (video)

Publications
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The AOP open awards Catalogue 2009
Sovereign Art Prize Catalogue 2008
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition catalogue 2007
Bristol Royal Academy online catalogue. 2008
Earthscape Art catalogue.
Landscape. An artists view.





LYNNE COLLINS PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS AND DIGITAL ART