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  • A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle: Mrinalini Mukherjee, Leela Mukherjee, Nilima Sheikh
  • Abstract Expressionism: Lee Krasner, Janet Sobel, Joan Mitchell and Louise Nevelson.
  • A Crisis of Brilliance: Dora Carrington
  • America after the Fall: a section on Georgia O’Keeffe.
  • The American Dream: Pop to the Present: prints by Helen Frankenthaler, Carroll Dunham, Ida Applebroog, Dotty Attie, Kiki Smith, Lee Lozano, Louise Bourgeois, Emma Amos and Kara Walker.
  • Art and Life: Winifred Nicholson.
  • Botticelli Reimagined: works by Evelyn de Morgan, Noël Laura Nisbet, Orlan, Tomoko Nagao and Cindy Sherman
  • Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism: works by Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, Djanira
  • By the Seaside: Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Anna Fox.
  • Carol Bove and Carlo Scarpa
  • Conflict, Time, Photography: Jane and Louise Wilson, Sophie Ristelhüber and Ursula Schulz-Dornberg.
  • Edith Tudor-Hart and Wolfgang Suschitzky
  • Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider: Gabriele Münter, Marianne von Werefkin
  • The Ingram Collection: Elisabeth Frink
  • ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies: Maria Bartuszovà, Huma Bhabha, Alexandra Bircken, Ruth Claxton, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Kati Horna, Sarah Lucas, Pippilotti Rist, Nicola Tyson and Cathy Wilkes
  • Killer Heels: shoe designers like Westwood and Hadid, and videos by Marilyn Minter, Leanie van der Vyver.
  • The London Open 2018: Rachel Ara, Gabriella Boyd, Hannah Brown, Rachael Champion, Ayan Farah, French & Mottershead, Céline Manz, Rachel Pimm, Renee So, Alexis Teplin, Elisabeth Tomlinson and Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
  • The Long Now: Alice Anderson, Olivia Bax, Jo Dennis, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Maria Kreyn,
    Rannva Kunoy, Carolina Mazzolari, Misha Milovanovich, Polly Morgan, Martine Poppe, Jenny Saville, Soheila Sokhanvari, Dima Srouji
  • Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919 to 1933: Jeanne Mammen
  • Medieval Women: In Their Own Words
  • Myth and Reality: Military Art in the Age of Queen Victoria @ the National Army Museum: Lady Elizabeth Butler and other Victorian women military artists
  • Now You See Us: Women Artists In Britain 1520 to 1920: Sarah Angelina Acland, Elinor Proby Adams, Anna Airy, Helen Allingham, Laura Alma-Tadema, Helen Cordelia Angell, Clare Atwood, Emma Barton, Rose Barton, Mary Beale, Vanessa Bell, Mary Benwell, Zaida Ben-Yusuf, Sarah Biffin, Mary Black, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Rosa Bonheur, Rosa Brett, Anne Brigman, Elizabeth Butler, Carine Cadby, Julia Margaret Cameron, Anna Maria Carew, Joan Carlile, Margaret Sarah Carpenter, Penelope Carwardine, Florence Claxton, Maria Cosway, Dolores Courtney, Catherine da Costa, Anne Seymour Damer, Evelyn De Morgan, Mary Delany, Sarah Anne Drake, Una Dugdale Duval, Susan Durant, Olive Edis, Maria Flaxman, Anne Forbes, Elizabeth Forbes, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, Mary Gartside, Artemisia Gentileschi, Sylvia Gosse, Harriet Gouldsmith, Mary Grace, Nina Hamnett, Minnie Jane Hardman, Clementina Hawarden, Diana Hill, Harriet Hosmer, Anna Hope Hudson, Esther Inglis, Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn, Gwen John, Charlotte Jones, Mary Ann Jones, Louise Jopling, Gertrude Kasebier, Angelica Kauffman, Minna Keene, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Emma Kendrick, Anne Killigrew, Laura Knight, Mary Knowles, L.A. (Ida) Knox, Edmonia Lewis, Mary Linwood, Mathilda Lowry, Anne Mee, Margaret Meen, Anna Lea Merritt, Evelyn Meyers, Clara Montalba, Henrietta Montalba, Mary Moser, Olive Mudie-Cooke, Annie Feray Mutrie, Martha Darley Mutrie, Eveleen Myers, Caroline Emily Nevill, Emily Mary Osborn, Emily Pitchford, Clara Maria Pope, Henrietta Rae, Katherine Read, Frances Reynolds, Christina Robertson, Susannah Penelope Rosse, Ethel Sands, Helen Saunders, Sarah Setchel, Kate Smith, Rebecca Solomon, Marie Spartali Stillman, Maria Spilsbury, Jane Steele, Marianne Stokes, Sarah Stone, Annie Louisa Swynnerton, Levina Teerlinc, Mary Thornycroft, Maria Verelst, Ethel Walker, Agnes Warburg, Henrietta Ward, Joanna Mary Wells, Augusta Withers, Ethel Wright
  • Performing for the Camera: photos by Hannah Wilke, Adrian Piper, Jemima Stehli, Carolee Schneemann, Dora Maurer, Sarah Lucas, Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman and Amalia Ulman
  • Peter Pan and Other Lost Children Alice Bolingbroke Woodward and Edith Farmiloe
  • Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Effie Gray Millais, Christina Rossetti, Annie Miller, Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth, Joanna Boyce Wells, Fanny Eaton, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Maria Zambaco, Jane Morris, Marie Spartali Stillman and Evelyn de Morgan
  • Queer British Art 1861 to 1967: Gluck, Ethel Sands, Clare Atwood, Ethel Walker, Laura Knight, Cecile Walton
  • RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology – 1
  • RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology – 2 Laura Aguilar, Hélène Aylon, Poulomi Basu, Mabe Bethônico, JEB, Joan E Biren, melanie bonajo, Carolina Caycedo, Judy Chicago, Tee Corinne, Minerva Cuevas, Agnes Denes, FLAR, Feminist Land Art Retreat, Format Photography, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Gauri Gill, Simryn Gill, Fay Godwin, Laura Grisi, Barbara Hammer, Taloi Havini, Nadia Huggins, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Barbara Kruger, Dionne Lee, Zoe Leonard, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Mary Mattingly, Ana Mendieta, Fina Miralles, Mónica de Miranda, Neo Naturists, Christine Binnie, Jennifer Binnie, Wilma Johnson, Otobong Nkanga, Josèfa Ntjam, Ada M. Patterson, PARI, People’s Archive of Rural India, Ingrid Pollard, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Susan Schuppli, Seneca Women’s Encampment for the Future of Peace and Justice, Fern Shaffer, Xaviera Simmons, Pamela Singh, Gurminder Sikand, Uýra, Diana Thater, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Andrea Kim Valdez, Francesca Woodman, Sim Chi Yin
  • Ruin Lust: Jane and Louise Wilson, Rachel Whiteread, Tacita Dean and Laura Oldfield Ford
  • Shoes: Pleasure and Pain: shoe designers including Sandra Choi, Caroline Groves, Vivienne Westwood, Sophia Webster, Fleur Oaks and Zaha Hadid
  • Soul Of A Nation: Art In The Age Of Black Power: works by Betye Saar and Elizabeth Catlett
  • Strange and Familiar: Britain as revealed by international photographers: works by Edith Tudor-Hart, Evelyn Hofer, Candida Höfer, Tina Barney and Rineke Dijkstra
  • Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art: Pacita Abad, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ghada Amer, Arpilleristas, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Yto Barrada, Louise Bourgeois, Jagoda Buić, Margarita Cabrera, Judy Chicago, Myrlande Constant, Tracey Emin, Iva Jankovic, Harmony Hammond, Sheila Hicks, Yee I-Lann, Kimsooja, Acaye Kerunen, Tau Lewis, Teresa Margolles, Georgina Maxim, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Violeta Parra, Solange Pessoa, Loretta Pettway, Faith Ringgold, Zamthingla Ruivah, Hannah Ryggen, Tschabalala Self, Mounira Al Solh, Angela Su, Lenore Tawney, T. Vinoja, Cecilia Vicuña, Billie Zangewa, Sarah Zapata
  • Women with Vision: Elisabeth Frink, Sandra Blow, Sonia Lawson
  • Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970 to 1990: Brenda Agard; Sam Ainsley; Simone Alexander; Bobby Baker; Anne Bean; Zarina Bhimji; Gina Birch; Sutapa Biswas; Tessa Boffin; Sonia Boyce; Chila Kumari Singh Burman; Shirley Cameron; Thalia Campbell; Helen Chadwick; Jennifer Comrie; Judy Clark; Caroline Coon; Eileen Cooper; Stella Dadzie; Poulomi Desai; Vivienne Dick; Nina Edge; Marianne Elliott-Said (Poly Styrene); Rose English; Catherine Elwes; Cosey Fanni Tutti; Aileen Ferriday; Format Photographers Agency; Chandan Fraser; Melanie Friend; Carole Gibbons; Penny Goring; Joy Gregory; Hackney Flashers; Margaret Harrison; Mona Hatoum; Susan Hiller; Lubaina Himid; Amanda Holiday; Bhajan Hunjan; Alexis Hunter; Kay Fido Hunt; Janis K. Jefferies; Claudette Johnson; Mumtaz Karimjee; Tina Keane; Rita Keegan; Mary Kelly; Rose Finn-Kelcey; Roshini Kempadoo; Sandra Lahire; Lenthall Road Workshop; Linder; Loraine Leeson; Alison Lloyd; Rosy Martin; Rita McGurn; Ramona Metcalfe; Jacqueline Morreau; The Neo Naturists; Lai Ngan Walsh; Houria Niati; Annabel Nicolson; Ruth Novaczek; Hannah O’Shea; Pratibha Parmar; Symrath Patti; Ingrid Pollard; Jill Posener; Elizabeth Radcliffe; Franki Raffles; Samena Rana; Su Richardson; Liz Rideal; Robina Rose; Monica Ross; Erica Rutherford; Maureen Scott; Lesley Sanderson; See Red Women’s Workshop; Gurminder Sikand; Sister Seven; Monica Sjöö; Veronica Slater; Penny Slinger; Marlene Smith; Maud Sulter; Jo Spence; Suzan Swale; Anne Tallentire; Shanti Thomas; Martine Thoquenne; Gee Vaucher; Suzy Varty, Christine Voge; Del LaGrace Volcano; Kate Walker; Jill Westwood; Nancy Willis; Christine Wilkinson; Vera Productions, Shirley Verhoeven
  • Work in Process: Julie Cockburn, Jessa Fairbrother, Alma Haser, Felicity Hammond, Liz Nielsen
  • The World Goes Pop @ Tate Modern: works by Joan Rabascall, Kiki Kogelnik, Judy Chicago, Evelyne Axell, Ángela García, Mari Chordà, Jana Želibská, Dorothée Selz, Beatriz González, Anna Maiolino, Uwe Lausen, Eulàlia Grau, Ulrike Ottinger, Nicola L, Ruth Francken, Ángela García, Mari Chordà, Marta Minujín, Isabel Oliver, Teresa Burga, Martha Rosler, Dorothée Selz, Delia Cancela, Renate Bertlmann, Chryssa Vardea, Romanita Disconzi, Natalia Lach-Lachowicz (Natalia LL), Sanja Iveković

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Posted by Simon on March 17, 2023

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Work in Process @ the Photographers’ Gallery

Downstairs in the basement of the Photographers’ Gallery there is an excellent shop selling not only all kinds of books about photography, but also cameras and film.

Next door to it is a room which serves a double function. Here a) you can buy top quality prints of works by photographers associated with the gallery – and b) three of the walls of this room are taken up by changing displays of new work by up-and-coming or established photographers.

For the next week or so there’s still time to catch a really nifty little exhibition (16 works in all) by five new and exciting women photographer-artists, titled Work in Process.

What the five have in common is their astonishingly inventive approaches to the idea of a photograph, they all push the boundaries and possibilities to amazing lengths. Or, as the blurb puts it, they all share:

process-based practices focusing on the photographic surface, interacting with it in challenging and innovative ways.

Julie Cockburn (b.1966, UK)

Cockburn draws on her training as a sculptor to re-invent vintage photographs as unique, contemporary works of art. Having selected old vintage photos, she then meticulously applies hand-embroidery and other mixed media to create works which I found beautiful and uplifting. Not just adding to the images but transforming them into something genuinely magical and inspiring. On display is Gust (2018), made specially for this show and her largest embroidered work to date.

Gust (2018) by Julie Cockburn © Julie Cockburn. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist

Gust (2018) by Julie Cockburn © Julie Cockburn. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist. Not available to buy

Jessa Fairbrother

Fairbrother has been working on a series titled Armour Studies (Regarding Skin). The examples here show her taking what are in themselves beautifully composed black and white shots of naked female models, generally sitting or bent over and from the back so as to conceal breasts and belly. Using a sharp contrast between the extremely white bodies and the pitch-black background Fairbrother has already produced starkly beautiful images.

But she then proceeds to create a maze of intricate needle perforations across the surface of the silver gelatin prints. They include zoomorphic, sometimes floral patterns, sometimes looking like larger pebbles sitting on sand, the patterns spread all across the stretched white skin of the subject to create images of strange and haunting beauty.

Dragonfly I (2017) by Jessa Fairbrother © Jessa Fairbrother. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist

Dragonfly I (2017) by Jessa Fairbrother © Jessa Fairbrother. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist. £1,750+ VAT

Alma Haser (b.1989, Germany)

Haser is represented by two startlingly different but equally inventive approaches to distorting and reinventing the idea of ‘the photograph’.

Her recent series, Within 15 Minutes (2017 to 2018), is based on taking high-quality colour portraits of people, then using a manufacturing process to convert the photos into 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles.

So far so interesting but what gives the images their unique twist is that Haser assembles the jigsaws with some bits subtly out of place and some bits left blank. The resulting images are still recognisable, but dislocated and beguilingly unnerving.

Lee and Clinton (1) 2017 by Alma Haser © Alma Haser. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist

Lee and Clinton (1) 2017 by Alma Haser © Alma Haser. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist. £1,250+VAT including frame

Haser is also represented by some new works from a project titled Pseudo (2018).

These are three-dimensional collages in which she takes a botanical image as starting subject, taking numerous shots from related angles, and then lays several ‘takes’ above each other and cuts holes in the upper layers so you can see through into the same or similar image on the layer beneath and the layer beneath that.

Not only this, but the pieces of original image which have been cutaway are stuck elsewhere on the image as if they’re floating away. These have to be seen in the flesh to appreciate their full 3-D effect, but flat images of them (as below) still convey their beguiling beauty.

Rhodanthemum (2018) by Alma Haser © Alma Haser. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist

Rhodanthemum (2018) by Alma Haser © Alma Haser. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist. £1,200+VAT including frame

Felicity Hammond (b. 1988, UK)

Hammond takes the conversion of photographs into sculptural form to new extremes. Her series Surfacing (2017) begins with photographs of adverts for future sites in the city. Hammond prints digital collages of these real and imagined spaces onto acrylic and then, making moulds to vacuum them, creates abstracted, futuristic works which seem to be melting and drooping and bulging out of the frame at you.

Another strange and unsettling way of bringing photos into the third dimension.

Surfacing (formation 01), 2017 by Felicity Hammond © Felicity Hammond. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist

Surfacing (formation 01) 2017 by Felicity Hammond © Felicity Hammond. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist. £1,250+VAT including frame

Liz Nielsen (b.1975, Wisconsin)

Nielsen omits the camera altogether to produce her vivid, abstract photograms. The works are created using an alternative darkroom process, involving handmade negatives with coloured gel transparencies and found light sources, including torches, bicycle lights and mobile phones.

Landscape Shapes (2017) by Liz Nielsen © Liz Nielsen. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist

Landscape Shapes (2017) by Liz Nielsen © Liz Nielsen. Courtesy of The Photographers’ Gallery and the artist. £4,350+VAT including frame

Thoughts

Interesting, aren’t they? All of them are stunning as images in their own right quite apart from the ways they each play with the idea of ‘the photograph’ in thought-provoking and fun ways.

Between you and me, I found any of these women’s works much more visually pleasing and imaginative than much of the work shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize and on display in the upstairs gallery. I like fun. Fun is good.

Buy one

All but one of the sixteen pieces on display (the exception being Gust) are on sale at prices starting from £1,200 + VAT. I’ve indicated the price in the caption to each photo.

If I had the money I’d buy almost all of them and hang them all round my house to brighten up the place and make me smile.

Related links

  • Work in Process continues at the Photographers’ Gallery until 9 June 2018

The photographers’ websites

More Photographers’ Gallery reviews

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