Liz Orton
Natural Idea for the Human Mind
It is said that no species now exists without negotiation with humans. Yet much photography is complicit in conceptualizing the natural as a separate realm. My ongoing series of work, Natural Idea for the Human Mind, uses an idea of gestural excess to propose an expanded natural history in which the body becomes irretrievably entangled with the specimen. The body is drawn into action, through touch or observation. I often incorporate ideas of force or anxiety to produce disturbances that sabotage all notions of a still, isolated nature. I appropriate a language of display from diverse sources, using the influences of found photos, text and diagrams to produce a new a new ecology of images.
Jocelyn Allen • Alex Grace • Sarah Janes • Liz Orton • Ian Samels • Nick Scammell • Andrea Seroni • Paloma Tendero Mesa •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Photography
De Montfort University
MA Photography
Goldsmiths University of London
MA Photography: The Image and Electronic Arts
Plymouth University
MA Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of Ulster
MFA Photography
University of Westminster
MA Photographic Studies
University of Westminster
MA Documentary Photography & Photojournalism
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