Inspired by the 18th century artist Mary Delany’s exquisite botanical paper collages, Flora Dislocata presents a constructed floral portrait removed from both habitat and context, appearing to float, displaced and disconnected. Using meticulous digital extraction to mirror Delany’s painstaking paper cutting processes and highlighting the rich albeit transient colours of natural forms against an atmosphere of absence, this work reflects upon both the beauty of impermanence and the universal themes of isolation and dislocation that pervade human existence, not least in these uncertain times.
My practice is informed by the materiality and representation of the landscape and still life objects. Where we encounter shape and form, I see also fragility and transience. Using photography as both medium and illusion, I engage in making and disrupting the boundaries of the traditional image to explore the contingencies of existence. By introducing materials, processes and dimensionality, I create work that plays with object and photographic trace.
BA Photography (1st Class), University of Westminster (2015)
MA Photography (Distinction), London College of Communication (2017)
Awards 2017 Photofusion Prize
2016, 2018 Tokyo International Foto Awards, Honourable Mentions
2016 Moscow International Foto Awards, Honourable Mention
2016 Fine Art Photography Awards, Nominee
2016 La Grande Photo International Photography Awards, Finalist
2016 Arte Laguna Prize, Venice, Photographic Art, Finalist
2015 Travers Smith Art Awards, Finalist
2014, 2016 PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris, Honourable Mentions
