Future Face: Face Value

A ground breaking exhibition Future Face was curated by Sandra Kemp for the Science Museum, London in 2004 which examined how we may read faces in todays culture dominated by the media and technology. My work of a school pupil was included. The Watts Gallery and University of Surrey gave me solo shows which arranged portraits of pupils from a variety of school settings examining their identities. Recently Head Girl Head Boy at the Lightbox,Woking presented portraits of students asking the question: How do we read/value faces of the young?
science museum installation
Future Face installation
Face Value Watts Gallery 2008
Work Shop
detail Face Value
Face Value
At the desk

Head Girl Head Boy

Lightbox Woking 2019

Reanimation 2 charcoal on paper

 

Animation developed from  archival photos of school pupils at Winchester College. An attempt to reanimate old images creates new ghostly cartoonish identities to the school boys.

Reanimation 1 charcoal on paper

 

Animation developed from  archival photos of school pupils at Charterhouse. An attempt to reanimate old images creates new ghostly cartoonish identities to the school boys. A score by old boy Vaughn Williams is added for melodrama