Polly Penrose
Dorset, July 2013, 2013
C- Type colour print
27 x 40.7 cms
10 10/16 x 16 1/16 ins
11813
Provenance
Acquired from the artistExhibitions
A PICTURE OF HEALTH | WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM THE HYMAN COLLECTION, Arnolfini Bristol, 18th May 2020 - 13th June 2021 (this print)'Writing Her Own Script' at Photo London, Somerset House (11-14 May 2023)
Edition 1 of 10 with two AP's. Signed and numbered on the reverse. Polly Penrose has commented on this picture: 'People have a very strong reaction to it, often of...
Edition 1 of 10 with two AP's.
Signed and numbered on the reverse.
Polly Penrose has commented on this picture:
"People have a very strong reaction to it, often of horror at how thin and vulnerable I look, but I find it a very tender moment. I was thin and vulnerable and finding motherhood quite hard, but I was lying in the garden at my dad's house. There had been a beautiful sunset and I felt rooted and peaceful. A lot of my work is quite frenetic (not necessarily in the finished picture, but definitely in the process of making it), but this one was a very calm serene moment and feels a bit like a fairytale."
Signed and numbered on the reverse.
Polly Penrose has commented on this picture:
"People have a very strong reaction to it, often of horror at how thin and vulnerable I look, but I find it a very tender moment. I was thin and vulnerable and finding motherhood quite hard, but I was lying in the garden at my dad's house. There had been a beautiful sunset and I felt rooted and peaceful. A lot of my work is quite frenetic (not necessarily in the finished picture, but definitely in the process of making it), but this one was a very calm serene moment and feels a bit like a fairytale."