I N T E R N AT I O N A L PH O T O G R A P H Y F E S T I VA L F O R M AT F E S T I VA L . C O M
15 MARCH 14 APRIL
UNIVERSITY OF DERBY G R A D U AT E A W A R D S C U R AT E D B Y LAURA O’LEARY
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A LY S R U S S E L L , B A P H O T O G R A P H Y D A N I E L L E S H A M B L E Y, B A P H O T O G R A P H Y DEANA BOWMAN, BA FINE ART JESS REDFEARN, BA PHOTOGRAPHY K E R R I B A R T L E T T, B A F I N E A R T NUNO ALMEIDA, BA PHOTOGRAPHY
Graduating in 2018, the six artists represented here are from the University of
Derby – four from the BA(Hons) Photography course and two from the BA(Hons) Fine Art
course – were selected by a panel of festival j u d g e s t o e x h i b i t t h e i r w o r k a t F O R M AT 1 9 from a large body of talented graduating students. The Graduates Award exhibition aims to give these outstanding recent
graduates further professional experience by
e x h i b i t i n g t h e i r w o r k a t o n e o f E u r o p e ’s m o s t prestigious photography festivals.
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Each artist has adopted a distinct approach to FORMAT19’s central theme of FOREVER//NOW.In Alys Russell’s photography series Prime Sight (1), she pastes retrieved photos from junk shops onto billboards, creating a public display of the family album alongside GPRS coordinates of the billboard’s location. Danielle Shambley’s large sculptural installation Eructate: The 90th Year (2) is comprised of personal photographs from the family albums of people of Derby from 1928 to the present day. In Deana Bowman’s work Social Detox Required (3), the unattainable body image created by the mass media is critiqued through appropriated imagery and text. Jess Redfearn has combined every selfie she has taken and rendered these photos as a physical artefact in Amalgam (4). Private II (5) by Kerri Bartlett invites you to look closer at these ‘insignificant’ and ‘menial’ tasks she carries out each day. Nuno Almeida’s Ante-Genesis (6) is an exploration into the evolution of both photography and virtual reality, which challenges the boundaries and perception of the photograph.
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