Printed to the photographer's specifications using Canson rag or Fuji Christal Archive (Matt or Gloss)
29.7 x 21 cms
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 ins
Special time-limited edition.
FPS51
'This picture is constructed from two separate photographs taken at different sites. A pond in Powdermill Woods near Battle a natural conservation site, is combined with wild flower seeds that...
"This picture is constructed from two separate photographs taken at different sites. A pond in Powdermill Woods near Battle a natural conservation site, is combined with wild flower seeds that have been planted and now bloom on many suburban roundabouts and at the edges of roads. I was thinking about the painting of Ophelia by John Everett Millais, which was also painted in two different locations, and the attention to detail of the flowers and landscape being more prominent than that of the model. He also painted flowers that would not have bloomed at the same time, similar to the recent introduction of “wild flower seeds” to many towns and cities.
This photograph is part of a series of landscapes taken across the county of Sussex and originally commisioned by Photoworks and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals."
Helen Sear about the photograph.
Helen Sear’s practice focuses on the co-existence of human, animal, and natural environments and is rooted in an interest in Magic Realism, Surrealism and Conceptual Art.
She studied Fine Art at Reading University and University College London, Slade School, her practice coming to prominence in the late 1980s, when she worked primarily with mixed-media installation, performance and video. Her photographic works became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured extensively in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Photography remains a central subject and medium in her work, which often challenges the dominance of the eye and the fixed-point perspective associated with the camera lens, and explores the potential of the artwork to activate and elicit feeling.
Sear was the first woman to represent Wales with a solo exhibition at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015presenting a suite of new works…the rest is smoke. Her most ambitious video work to date, wahaha biota has been shown in the UK, Netherlands and Switzerland in 2018 /2019. Her inaugural exhibition with Martin Asbaek Gallery, Fascination, opened in Copenhagen in March 2018 and in 2019 two major pieces were acquired by the James Hyman British Photography Collection.