- Venue
- Tenderpixel Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, March 26, 2009
- Ends
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- Address
- 10 Cecil Court WC2N 4HE London
- Location
- London
Tenderpixel Gallery is pleased to welcome back photographer Richard Ansett for a solo exhibition. Ansett’s work investigates how identities are formed and projected while interacting within social, cultural, economic and symbolic feedback circuits. Ansett re-works contemporary constructs of portraiture by shedding light on the boundaries of normative behavior, intimacy and self-expression.Ansett’s images represent a moment in time as opposed to a moment of truth; what Ansett offers the viewer is a poignant moment of self-referential reflection. These photographs are complex manifestations, purposefully ambiguous and difficult to de-code. The artist’s work is not a form of social realism, nor is it documentary. Whilst there is obvious complicity, it is not collaboration; Ansett proposes an exploration of the subject free from the expectation to represent them in a flattering light. Alone within the confines of gallery space one must attempt to understand these images by drawing from their own individual life experience. Richard Ansett is a British photographer living and working in London. His work has been collected by the Smithsonian Institute, the National Portrait Gallery Permanent Collection, and the National Portrait Gallery of Canada. He has also been selected to exhibit as part of the Schweppes Portrait Prize (2005), NPG Portrait awards (2007), Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize (2008), and was awarded Best in Book in Creative Review’s Photography Annual (2008).
