Title: Gilded
Medium: photographs
Location: Leicestershire, UK
Creative Experience
The Gilded project began as a commentary on women’s beauty standards but has expanded to include the unrealistic image expectations of an Instagram age. All the flowers in this series have been ‘enhanced’, begging the question of which is better, natural or ‘improved’ and what is real.
Biography and links
I am a practicing image maker and work mainly using analogue equipment in medium and large formats, at my happiest in the darkroom. At the age of fifty, I decided on a career change and completed a BA in photography at the University of Derby, and am now in the process of finishing a Fine Art (Photography) Master's degree. Recent projects have explored issues which face women, menopause, sexism, and sexual violence, however, I also enjoy landscape and have an ongoing, long-term project which considers the British and tourism and leisure.
https://www.femphotography.com
https://www.instagram.com/femheresy
2025 - Title: Gilded
- Mayor's Gallery, Las Vegas, US (Work on display: IRL)
- The Hive, Worcestershire, UK (Work on display: IRL & VR gallery)
- RSA House, London, UK (Work on display: IRL & VR gallery)