Alison Bettles
The Burden of Inheritance
Objects, photographs and places evoke the memories and absence of others and our own mortality. The kept object plays an important part in the cathartic process of remembering and the experience of grief. I have used archival material to portray and explore the notion of inheritance, keeping and loss and how this can perhaps be an overwhelming burden in many respects by the amount of residual belongings that we accumulate over time from others past lives and existence. We all will or have been subjected to the possible guilt of throwing things away that belonged to a loved one and that we feel we ought to keep them as a sense of duty, tradition and remembrance. There is a pull from both sides. My temporal structures echo the fragility of our existence whereby the object is removed from what it initially represents to something it signifies in the present.
Ben/Sam Absalom/Bardsley • Alison Bettles • Janine Boyer • Andrew Burton • Malachy Donnelly • Azadeh Falakshahi • Betsie Genou • Rosie Holmes • Lucie-Anne Lang • Laura Pannack • Claire Pepper • Willie Robb • Tamsin Ross-Van Lessen • Lisa Paige Smith • Madeleine Wilson • Emma Wright •
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Brighton
BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Camberwell College of Arts
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University of Chester
BA (Hons) Photography
Cleveland College of Art and Design
BA (Hons) Photography
Dublin Institute of Technology
BA (Hons) Photography
IADT Dun Laoghaire
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
University College Falmouth
BA (Hons) Photography
University College Falmouth
MA Photography
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
University of Gloucestershire Cheltenham
BA (Hons) Photography
London College of Communication
Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
London College of Communication
MA Photography
University of Wales, Newport
BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
University of Wales, Newport
BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
University of Portsmouth
BA (Hons) Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Swansea Metropolitan University
BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism