Jo Spence
Photo therapy: Work on Emotional Eating, 1984
Four colour photographs mounted by the artist onto black cardboard.
40 x 30 cms
15 11/16 x 11 12/16 ins
Series: 5. Photo Therapy Collaborations (1984-90)
12105
Provenance
Jo Spence Memorial ArchiveRichard Saltoun Gallery, London
Exhibitions
Jo Spence : from Fairy Tales to Phototherapy. Photographs from the Hyman Collection, Arnolfini Bristol, (18th May 2020 - 20th June 2021) (this print)Jo Spence: A Woman’s Place? at Belfast Exposed in Collaboration with the Centre for British Photography. 7th October 2024 – 21st December 2024
Literature
Ribalta, George and Terry Dennett. Beyond the Perfect Image. Photography, Subjectivity,Antagonism. Exhibition catalogue. Barcelona: MACBA, 2005, illus. p328 (three matching)
Jo Spence, Putting myself in the picture: A political, personal, and photographic autobiography, 1986, p.182 (variant set of four)
1984 or 1985 Collaboration with Rosy Martin. Four colour photographs mounted by the artist onto black cardboard. Each photograph: 18.1 x 12.6 cms Total dimensions: 40 x 30 cms Spence...
1984 or 1985
Collaboration with Rosy Martin.
Four colour photographs mounted by the artist onto black cardboard.
Each photograph: 18.1 x 12.6 cms
Total dimensions: 40 x 30 cms
Spence has explained this photo therapy session as "Working on the emotional roots of patterns of eating, with myself as both subject and director of photography." Jo Spence, Putting myself in the picture: A political, personal, and photographic autobiography, 1986, p.182.
Rosy Martin writes that in this work Spence is "performing the excesses of emotional eating" and proposes as alternative titles "Sugar, Sugar" or "Emotional Feeding ... Sugar, Sugar refers to a popular song."
We are grateful to Rosy Martin for her assistance in cataloguing this work.
Collaboration with Rosy Martin.
Four colour photographs mounted by the artist onto black cardboard.
Each photograph: 18.1 x 12.6 cms
Total dimensions: 40 x 30 cms
Spence has explained this photo therapy session as "Working on the emotional roots of patterns of eating, with myself as both subject and director of photography." Jo Spence, Putting myself in the picture: A political, personal, and photographic autobiography, 1986, p.182.
Rosy Martin writes that in this work Spence is "performing the excesses of emotional eating" and proposes as alternative titles "Sugar, Sugar" or "Emotional Feeding ... Sugar, Sugar refers to a popular song."
We are grateful to Rosy Martin for her assistance in cataloguing this work.