WHITECHAPEL

A photograph in the modern world tends to explain the object depicted either by describing it or positioning it relative to another in space. The photograph can give that object a use value – either in commercial or cultural terms. The currency of such a photograph is in its ability to explain its content.

In these photographs I have tried to re-mystify the objects depicted in order to allow them to have the ‘power to proliferate as a variable memory, an intangible concept, filtered through individual consciousness’ (Adrian Searle: Michael Kimmelman, The accidental masterpiece).
The silhouettes, for example use a visual form that predates photography, perhaps a
somewhat crude or schematic depiction: The silhouette merely marks a person’s past presence and records in a very direct way.

In the photographed silhouette I particularly enjoy the relationship between “the ‘crude’ method of registering a likeness and photography’s sophisticated surface detail, offering in talismanic form, an alternative grasp between two-dimensional image and three-dimensional presence” (Catherine wood, Freize mag., issue 90, 04/05)

In the recent ‘drapery’ works I have been repeating an exercise that artists and art students have been doing for centuries. As an exercise in photographic terms they are a study of light rather than a demonstration of skill in paint/pen handling. They float independently as a reminder of time passed.

Fiona Drummond 2005

Oysters

FIONA DRUMMOND

Studio Address:
61-63 CUDWORTH STREET,
LONDON E1

Home Address:
36 WINCHESTER STREET
LONDON SW1V 4NF

Email:
Fionamdrummond@aol.com

0171 931 0272 (H)
07768 795 876 (mob)

Education:

Camberwell College of Arts: Foundation, 1992-93
Chelsea College of Arts: BA Hons., 1993-96
Goldsmith’s College: MA Fine Art, 1996-98
Selected Shows & Awards:
1994, 1995, 1997 Solo Shows USA
1995 King Sturge Award, London
1995 Blind Field, Group Show, London
1996 The Photo Show, London
1996 Cable Street Gallery, London
1997 International Velvet, London
1997 Mona Bismark Foundation, Paris
1998 Goldsmith’s MA Show, London
1999 DIN/D-I-N, Amsterdam
2000 (Feb.) Hard Candy, London (co-Curator)
2000 15th Sept Hard Candy-Berlin, Gallery Wieland, Mitte-Berlin (&Curator)
2000 Insider Trading, London
2001 Desert Rose, London
2001 For the Love of Dog, Pump House Gallery, London (& Co-curator)
2002 Deadly Nightshade, Solo Show, Double door Gallery, Maine, USA
2002 Guerilla Trading, Fresh art, London
2003 Supernatural art gallery, a Habitat print project, London
2003 Portrait Show, Habitat, London
2003 Once in a BLUE MOON, Solo Show, Double Door Gallery, Maine, USA
2005 WHITECHAPEL, Solo Show, Light Galley, London
2008 Scheduled SOLO show PAYSON Gallery, Palm Beach, Fla., USA
Commissions:
2001 It’s a girl’s world TOMPAULIN single record sleeve
2001 The town and the city TOMPAULIN CD & Album cover
2002 Give me a riot in the summertime TOMPAULIN single CD cover
2003 Art on Demand Habitat
Publications:
2003 (June) Universalmaschine, Berlin, Germany.
2002 Make Magazine #92, p.40
2001 13/10 The Guardian Magazine, p.88 & 89
2000&2001 M&E magazine (re: CD Covers for Tompaulin)
2001 20/10 The Times ‘Play’, p.13 ( re: CD Covers for Tompaulin)

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