Lesley Parkinson
The Collector
This body of work is an exploration of the concepts of collecting, protecting and ownership. Based in the domestic environment it examines our relationship with our possessions. By covering the objects in different ways, tissue bags, fabric or isolating them in a bell jar, they take on an importance and significance of their own, they become fragile, precious and mysterious. The work questions the act of collecting and the value placed on objects either for material or sentimental reasons. The work oscillates between the ideas of the surrealists and the utilitarian functional work of the early photographers. The objects remain fixed motionless in their own time and space embalmed by paper, cloth or glass.
Joan Alexander • Alison Bettles • Luke Hamblin • Louise Maher • Paul Munson • Lesley Parkinson • Alison Stolwood • Christopher Torry •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
Postgraduate Photography
De Montfort University
MA Photography
London College of Communication
MA Photography
University of Sunderland
MA Photography
Sir John Cass School of Art, Media and Design, London Metropolitan University
MA Photography