Vicki Painting
Legacy
'Walking about' describes how a person with dementia will purposefully leave their home in a search for something significant. This word is used in preference to 'wandering' which infers aimlessness and within this context a kind of hopelessness. Reframing the landscape as a representation of the loss and absence of my father, I have retraced the steps of familiar sites last walked with him over forty years ago. These rediscovered landscapes feel complete and tangible, they function in such a way as to encompass the past but allow space for reframing and understanding. The idea of home is also included in the work as a contested site viewed as simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar, accommodating the trajectory of illness, and the need to salvage a legacy.
Gaynor Barton • Lisa Brunzell • Sandra Junicic • Mike McCombe • Vicki Painting •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Manchester Metropolitan University
MA/MFA Photography
Plymouth College of Art
MA Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of South Wales
MA Documentary Photography
Ulster University
MFA Photography
University of Westminster
MA Photography Arts
University of Westminster
MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism