Tina Carr and Annemarie Schöne - Lower Gallery

Lost and Found
Monday 4 July - Wednesday 27 July 200

Personal Statement
Lost and Found

We work collaboratively. The tenets of our work are coherence, intensity and personal accountability.
For us photography is a juxtaposition between photographer and presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. We try to go beyond superficial photographic accuracy, surface naturalism to where the spirit of the picture becomes retrospective, contemplative, and not so much a document as a talisman or relic.

This body of work, ‘Lost & Found, the Very Rich Hours of Tina & Annemarie’ is a series of documentary still life photographs depicting rural scenes in West Wales during the transition between the dominant agrarian way of life and that which is coming to taking its place.
The traditional, and the values associated with it, are increasingly being eroded away. Farmers, the former custodians of the land are being forced by economics, government directives and loss of subsidies to diversify or leave the land altogether. Deprived of caring concern, communities as well as Nature herself are experiencing the consequential stresses and strains of the dramatic changes taking place.

These images evoke the intimate and detailed devotional imagery of the illuminations contained in ‘Books of Hours,’ in particular those that appear at the point in Art History where artists begin to draw directly from Nature. This juncture is perceived to mark the end of the Medieval and the beginning of the Renaissance, another very dramatic transition.

In the same way as the artists of this period were exploring the laws of vision in their world around them, so we are exploring the physical world around us with similar intensity.
We look deeper than we ever have before at our everyday surroundings, at particular finds and familiar places with new eyes

Also showing at Mwldan Upper Gallery - Kevan Coulton - People, Place and Thing

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