Sophy Rickett, Vauxhall Bridge
Sophy Rickett, Vauxhall Bridge
Vauxhall Bridge
1995/2023
Giclee print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Image size: 11cmH x 11cmW
Print Size: 25cmH x 20cmW
Edition of 50
+ About the work
To celebrate the launch of Climax Books’ latest publication, Pissing Women, we are delighted to announce Vauxhall Bridge 1995/2023 a new edition available exclusively from Hi-Noon. Featuring a previously unpublished image from the original 90’s shoot, this image is printed full frame, and without the reverse flip. The print is scaled to the same proportions as the pages of the book.
From Climax Books: “In 1994, Sophy Rickett began photographing herself and her friends pissing on the streets of London. Shot at night, dressed up in office wear, a bodily function usually performed discreetly by women was staged openly in public; an act normally reserved for men. Roaming London’s financial district after hours, the resulting images – deadpan and performative – would become Rickett’s seminal series Pissing Women, now published in its entirety by Climax Books for the first time.”
+ 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.