"Drawing-out the Malham Painters".
Family portrait taken from The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery's Malham Family of Painters exhibition. Inspired by the Gallery's keen interest in local heritage I looked behind the scenes of the artworks on display. After finding photographs of the family I worked into and around the images (cropping and cutting out certain family members) in an effort to re-tell relationships within this well known family. Sadness occupies each of the images because people are quite literally "drawn-out" of the frame. This has been one of my favourite projects to-date; I see this transformation - of a public exhibition into an investigation of private life - as a paradigm of how the culture industry "picks and chooses" how to display areas of peoples lives and works from an outside perspective; often missing the point entirely or creating a fictive narrative.