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Lost In Time at the Northlight Gallery

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October 1, 2017
art / photography

Northlight Gallery, Stromness, Orkney — © www.anniewrightphotography.com

This is where I will be in three weeks and three days time: back in Orkney where I’m having an exhibition at the excellent Northlight Gallery in Stromness. It’s called “Lost In Time”, a title which describes how I experience photography where losing myself, all sense of time and my bearings are essential elements in the intuitive process of finding the unexpected. This show juxtaposes journeys in the Middle East and North Africa with those made in Ireland and Orkney. In other words: places that either very, very dry or extremely wet: the Sahara meets bog.
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Étude Gothique

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September 4, 2017
art

Yesterday I visited Marinus Boezem’s Étude Gothique at the Kunstlinie Almere, where Rheims Cathedral’s ground plan has been delineated in birdseed. It was also a happy reunion that started last March at Amsterdam’s Oudekerk. Here, I filmed and photographed The Weather, a performance involving his weather map projections and cello music by Frances-Marie Uitti.

In the 1980s, Marinus worked on several major projects where landscape plays an important role. His greatest and most important work from this period is The Green Cathedral (1978–1987), which Étude Gothique is based on. For The Green Cathedral, 174 Italian poplars were planted in a polder landscape in Flevoland. The trees reproduce the ground plan of Rheims Cathedral. Much of Boezem’s spatial work can be located in the tradition of Land Art, and motifs such as landscape, space, climate, light, air and cartography play a central role in this work.

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Hiding the Wound – Homage to Mr Freud

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July 30, 2017
art / LGBTQ

I’m absolutely delighted that my work Hiding the Wound – Homage to Mr Freud (1979) is part of the Coming Out exhibition, which has just opened at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. The show celebrates the diversity of LBGT voices over the last 50 years since the first steps were taken in the decriminalising of homosexuality in the United Kingdom.

According to the information accompanying Hiding the Wound, “the title of this artwork refers to the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) It also refers to his theory known as the Oedipus Complex. This suggested that women believed that they had been wounded, or castrated, when they discovered they didn’t have a penis as a child.

“Wright was active in the women’s liberation movement during the 1970s. Her practice at that time explored gender and sexuality through photography and performance. This work, she explains, ‘by means of sewing, a so-called feminine activity, responds to the female experience under male supremacy.'”

For me, it was always a quite light-hearted piece, a visual joke at the expense of Freudian solemnity.

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Discovering the Fujifilm X-T2

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June 26, 2017
Alfie / art / Orkney / photography

My travelling companion Alfie getting to grips with my brand new Fujifilm X-T2. The Fuji has received plenty of gold star reviews but – although that’s important – ultimately it all comes down to whether it sits comfortably in your hands and is in tune with your photographic desires. In other words: Can I make it sing for me? As of now, all the signs are positive and I can’t wait to start working with it! (more…)

My Work at the Walker Art Gallery

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May 1, 2017
art / England

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Coming Out, exhibition — Photo: Wikipedia

I’m delighted to be included in Coming Out, an exhibition at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery, which is otherwise known as the “National Gallery of the North”. The show opens on 28th July and I’ll be represented by a work that was purchased by the Arts Council Collection. Hopefully, I’ll be there for the private view as I’ll be in Orkney at around that time.

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Frances-Marie Uitti and Marinus Boezem at the Oudekerk

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April 10, 2017
art / Glamour

Frances-Marie Uitti and Marinus Boezem were recently at Amsterdam's Oudekerk for "The Weather", a performance of music and weather map projections. I photographed the dress rehearsal. It was a long day, very cold…

Annie Wright Photography - Francis Bacon Hugh Lane Gallery

Francis Bacon’s Studio, Hugh Lane Gallery

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July 25, 2016
art / beauty / Ireland

Francis Bacon’s Studio, Hugh Lane Gallery. Bacon’s studio was first offered to the Tate in London which, for some inexplicable reason, turned it down. So it came to Dublin where…

Magical

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January 4, 2015
art / Glamour / Morocco

The Iranian-born, Brooklyn-based artists Icy and Sot get everywhere! Their magical work can even be found in the alleyways of Marrakesh.Photo: Annie Wright Photography