Susan Derges: Soul of the Underground
Nov 22, 2018 - Jan 26, 2019
Purdy Hicks is pleased to present a new exhibition of photographic works by British artist Susan Derges. Much of the work of Susan Derges revolves around the creation of visual metaphors exploring the relationship between the observer and the observed; the self and nature or the imagined and the 'real'. Susan Derges is a pioneering force in camera-less photography. Characteristically, her practice has involved cameraless, lens-based, digital and reinvented photographic processes, and encompasses subject matter informed by landscape and abstraction as well as the physical and biological sciences. Derges endeavours to capture invisible scientific and natural processes - the continuous movement of water, the evolution of frogspawn or the cycles of the moon. Her practice reflects the work of the earliest pioneers of photography but is also very contemporary in its awareness of environmental issues and the complexity of its conceptual meanings.
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Purdy Hicks is pleased to present a new exhibition of photographic works by British artist Susan Derges. Much of the work of Susan Derges revolves around the creation of visual metaphors exploring the relationship between the observer and the observed; the self and nature or the imagined and the 'real'. Susan Derges is a pioneering force in camera-less photography. Characteristically, her practice has involved cameraless, lens-based, digital and reinvented photographic processes, and encompasses subject matter informed by landscape and abstraction as well as the physical and biological sciences. Derges endeavours to capture invisible scientific and natural processes - the continuous movement of water, the evolution of frogspawn or the cycles of the moon. Her practice reflects the work of the earliest pioneers of photography but is also very contemporary in its awareness of environmental issues and the complexity of its conceptual meanings.
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