honorable mention
ODETTE ENGLAND
title
SELF DIAGNOSIS
The failure element comes in two parts: a pointing to failure (of snapshots to provide access to the ‘real’ me and the intentions of my parents who took them), and a showing of failure (to address myself).
She is a two-time UK winner of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Photographers competition, and in 2012 won the prestigious CENTER $5,000 Project Launch Award, juried by Virginia Heckert, Associate Curator, J. Paul Getty Museum. An exhibition of her award winning series Thrice Upon A Time was shown at the New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, NM).
Most recently England has been named a finalist for three major Australian photographic prizes: the 2014 $15,000 Sunshine Coast Art Prize; the 2014 $10,000 DUO Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize; and the 2014 $4,000 IRIS Award by the Perth Centre for Photography.
England graduated with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA Photography) in 2012. She is represented in the US (east coast) by KLOMPCHING GALLERY and currently teaches photography at the University of South Australia.
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entry description
Self Diagnosis is a part-photographic, part-psychological study of failure. I expose personal snapshots on the back of each of the ten inkblots from the Rorschach inkblot test, to investigate the consequences of opening myself up to photographic interpretation; the exposure of items typically harbored or guarded; and the construction of visual truth versus fiction in the family album. The images, printed on the back of photo rag, are open to multiple analyses, some of which will be true or false, meaningful or meaningless.The failure element comes in two parts: a pointing to failure (of snapshots to provide access to the ‘real’ me and the intentions of my parents who took them), and a showing of failure (to address myself).
about the photographer
Odette England (1975, Australian/British) has participated in exhibitions across Europe, the USA, and Australia including solo exhibitions at Light House, Wolverhampton, UK; Three White Walls Gallery, Birmingham, UK; and Durham Art Gallery, Durham, UK; and group exhibitions at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (Rochester, NY); the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL); the Photographic Resource Center (Boston, MA); the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (Philadelphia, PA); the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO); Host Gallery (London, UK) and the Newspace Center for Photography (Portland, OR).She is a two-time UK winner of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Photographers competition, and in 2012 won the prestigious CENTER $5,000 Project Launch Award, juried by Virginia Heckert, Associate Curator, J. Paul Getty Museum. An exhibition of her award winning series Thrice Upon A Time was shown at the New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, NM).
Most recently England has been named a finalist for three major Australian photographic prizes: the 2014 $15,000 Sunshine Coast Art Prize; the 2014 $10,000 DUO Magazine Percival Photographic Portrait Prize; and the 2014 $4,000 IRIS Award by the Perth Centre for Photography.
England graduated with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA Photography) in 2012. She is represented in the US (east coast) by KLOMPCHING GALLERY and currently teaches photography at the University of South Australia.
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