Statement of work
Lynne Collins began her career as a sculptor and painter 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 own working experience of the film industry, combined with child hood memories when film sets were her playground (Lynne's parents were also in the film industry) that Lynne draws upon when making her images.
Often chosing abandoned Victorian asylum buildings as her backdrop, Lynne superimposes an 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 abandoned asylum offering the possibility for nature to rejuvenat,e in the long term, such forgotten places. This series was created by an urge to take people to environments that exist only in Lynne's mind.
Derelict decaying mental institutions and industrial buildings are transformed into places of surreal beauty with carefully chosen, topographically fitting, woodland images, shot at the same time of day with the same natural light conditions.
The images are meant to confuse. Lynne has a message and questions our impartiality with our natural environment. Her intention is to suggest the need for all human life to nurture nature and learn that to cohabit rather than eliminate could be benifial to all.
In her series "The Trespasser" she has returned to the discarded spaces of derelict buildings and taking inspiration from the seventeenth century Dutch masters has overlaid these bleak interiors with sumptuous still life's 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.
Follow link below to read a review of Trespasser # 1 at The Rich Mix by Tom Jeffreys.
http://www.lynne-collins.com/reviews.htm
Several of Lynne's Trespasser images can be purchased from Troika Editions an online gallery which showcases exciting and beautiful work by photographers with a pedigree.
Bridget Coaker is Curator and editor. of Troika Editions. For more about Troika click here.
Night Walks
An ongoing series of work that takes Lynne to destinations that during the day look depressing and neglected, where industry destroys the land around it and has little concern for it’s environmental impact. Nuclear power stations dominate the coast line with gray crude exteriors and humming sounds that resonate the close vicinity.
To find a spot that’s reasonably safe to tread and wait until night time throws a black velvet blanket over these neglected uncared for spaces is lynne’s intention. Only the lights that shine unceasingly through the night are what she wants to photograph, for the unseen is a place you would not want to go to in the day time and these areas are left to the viewers imagination.
Burnt Rooms is about a personal fear. As a small child of four Seeing the flames from a chip pan reach the ceiling. At the age of seven the hall of her boarding school set alight by an old upright paraffin heater, knocked over by running children, the whole of the floor was alight and in flames in seconds.
None of the rooms photographed are in any way personal to Lynne but the fear is exorcized by the visit to sites that have almost burnt to the ground and a certain beauty has been found in the remnants of burnt timbers.
Memories and dreams
These images are a collection of 2 or 3 black and white photographs that have been laid on top of one another to create an altered landscape, which represents time spent in an area. Memories are often of a whole area where we either enjoyed spending our time or where something eventful took place. In our mind these can, over time become more a feeling about an area and our mind produces an overall picture. This series of 6 images record the artists memory of time spent in the Peak District national park. The images have been tinted to represent a distant memory of colour. Their altered state is intended to give a dream like quality where colour is not remembered as in dreams where colour does not seem to play any major part.
Allotment Stories
This series seeks to express the voyage of continual experimentation, anguish, pride and ingenuity involved in the growing year of the organic vegetable grower. This series is still in production.
Exhibitions
2011
The Fulham Palace Art Fair
The Trespasser series at the
Fulham Palace Art Fair 6 th -9 th October 2011
Fulham Palace, Bishops Avenue, London, SW6 6EA
The front Room Gallery
Exhibition: Construction Works
Where: 96 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3EA.
opens on 21st June featuring Jan Dunning, Christine Erhard, Lynne Collins and Matthew Booth.
Private View 6.30 - 8.30pm, Tuesday, 21st June 2011
Photography Open
Where: The Royal West of England Academy
Queen's Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1PX
Open daily
20th February - 5th April.
Lynne received the RWA photography award for the two images on show in this exhibition.
The Edge of Perception. 1 and 6
The Instituto Cervantes.
Art on The Table
Showing: The Trespasser Series.
Where:
102, Eaton Square. Belgravia. London SW1W 9AN
Open daily except Sunday
9th February - 11th March 2011.
LINK TO TV EXTRACT. in Spanish.
Review: Work across a range of media by a selection of Spanish and UK-based artists at the Instituto Cervantes this February and March.
The works on show all explore ideas around food - look out in particular for the elegantly lucid photography of Lynne Collins. http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/london/event/art-on-the-table/at/instituto-cervantes-london/
The Royal West of England Academy. Photography 2
Showing: works from The Edge of Perception series. 1 and 6
Presented with the RWA photography award for both images
Where:
Queen's Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1PX
Open daily
20th February - 5th April.
2010
The Old Truman Brewery
F Block, T4
15 Hanbury Street London E1 6QR.
14 - 25 October. 2010
Open daily 11am - 6pm
Private View Thursday 14th 6-9pm.
The Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch. E1 6LA.
12th November - 12th December 2010.
Open daily 10 am - 12 Midnight
Preview Thursday 11th November from 6-8pm
The Pedder Photography Show
The Bigger Picture Gallery
2A Anerley Hill, Crystal Palace. London SE19 2AA.
21st October and 27th November 2010.
Private View 21st October 6-9pm
The Royal West of England Academy Bristol.
154 th Autumn Exhibition
24th October - 12th December. 2010
www.rwa.org.uk
The Troika Editions Collection.
'The Floor To Ceiling Show' The Front Room. 96 Farringdon Road. London. EC1R 3EA
11th August - 19th September 2010. Private view 10th August 6.00 - 9.00pm
Group show. Summer Exhibition at Bigger Picture Gallery.
Where: 2A Anerley Hill, Crystal Palace. London SE19 2AA www.biggerpicturegallery.co.uk
7th June - 31st August 2010
Group exhibition at The Portico Gallery.
Where: Knights Hall, Knights Hill, West Norwood. London SE27 0HS.
Opens 3rd May - 15th May 2010.
April 2010 Artslant showcase winner
Solo Exhibition. 22 Gallery.
Where: 22 Peter Street. Soho. London. December - January 2009 / 2010
AOP Gallery London
The Association of Photographers Awards. . August 2009
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SOVERIEGN EUROPEAN ART PRIZE 2008
Somerset House. London. Sovereign Art Prize. . 2008
Shoreditch House London. 2008
West of England Royal Academy. Bristol 2008
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. London. 2008
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. London. 2007
Croydon Clock Tower
Heathlands Exhibition 2006
Signals Art Event. London. 2006
Signals Art Event. London. 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. London
Cafe Lava. Solo show. London
Urban Art, Brixton.
The Brixton Ritzy (video)
Cafe Lava (video) London.
The John Price Film Club (video) London
Schimatizo Film event (video)
Publications.
Flip Magazine. London Independant Photography
MAG. Issue 3 2011
The Photographer. The British Institute of Professional Photography June/July 2010 issue
Front cover and and feature on Lynne Collins. READ REVIEW
Art RWA 05 Summer 2011
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.
Awards
Excellence in photography award. Royal Academy of Bristol 2011
RWA award for best photography in show 2011
Artslant showcase winner. 2010
Shortisted Sovereign European Art Prize.2008