Sophy Rickett, Stones, Kenfig Burrows
Sophy Rickett, Stones, Kenfig Burrows
Stones, Kenfig Burrows
2019
Silver bromide
Image size 22cmH X 20cmW
Print size 33.5cmH x 30cmW
Edition of 15
+ About the work
In Stones, Kenfig Burrows two large pebbles formed 100 million years apart are placed together in the quiet darkness of the photographic studio; a formally convincing, yet geologically inaccurate cradling of one by the other.
This edition is a key work in The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows; a mixed media project that combines photography and text to create a powerfully allusive work addressing ideas of female agency, the history of photography, and the landscape and geography of the Gower Penninsula in Wales.
+ About the artist
Sophy Rickett is an artist working with photography, film, text and archives. She has exhibited internationally since the 1990s and her work is held in important museum collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Government Art Collection, London, Pompidou Centre, Paris, FRAC Alsace and the Musee des Beaux Artes Nantes.
The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows continues Rickett’s idiosyncratic and personal exploration of archival practices established in recent projects such as The Death of a Beautiful Subject, (GOST, 2015), Objects in The Field (Kettles Yard, Cambridge and Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, 2013) and To The River (Venice Biennale, 2011, and Arnolfini, Bristol, 2012). In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Kraszna Kraus Photography Prize, 2020. She is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at University of the Arts, London.