| 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 AOP open awards Catalogue 2009 |
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