Susie Needham

Images from Ten Parishes

About the Event

Susie Needham finds images using a pin-hole camera to record new and unexpected viewpoints and the development of cameraless photography has become a special interest for her over the last 10 years.

Event Type

Exhibition

Disciplines

Photography/Film/New Media

Telephone

01823 400470

Email

susie@pencilofnature.co.uk

Website

www.pencilofnature.co.uk

Opening Times

Fri 7th	Sat 8th	Sun 9th	Mon 10th	Tue 11th	Wed 12th	Thu 13th	Fri 14th	Sat 15th	Sun 16th
closed	12pm - 11pm	12pm - 11pm	closed	12pm - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm	12pm - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm	12pm - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm	12pm - 3pm, 6pm - 11pm	12pm - 11pm	12pm - 11pm

Further Info

Susie Needham has lived in Milverton for over 20 years. She trained as a Textile Designer and later in Fine Art Printmaking at Exeter. She worked as a conservator, at Royal Albert Museum Exeter, Art Teacher and Antique dealer before finally being able to focus on her own work. She has run workshops for Community Education, SCC schools and The Soil Association.

Susie uses the techniques of early photography; photograms, sun prints and pin hole photography and the development of cameraless photography has become a special interest for her over the last ten years.

She selects an object and projects light through it directly onto the photosensitive paper which captures a ghostly image, a white shadow on a black space, the mirror image of the original form capturing the essence of the piece.

Susie collects costume and antique clothes to work with and also uses flower images throughout the seasons. Her work practice developed by collaborating with Museum Curators, Fashion Designers and Organic Gardeners. These opportunities enabled a steady progress that was acknowledged in 2006 by the Fox-Talbot Museum of Photography at Lacock in Wiltshire in the form of a year-long exhibition of her Sun Prints. Susie exhibits internationally and sells work to collectors, academics and fashion houses.

Black and white works made in the darkroom have the quality of closely observed drawings. From childhood clothes to full-length adult ball gowns representing the procession of life’s experience often as ceremonial rites of passage. The work records the object, informing the viewer about the interior structure as well as the external outline. The images suggest feelings and emotions within the human experience of childhood memories or states of adult life, each with its own presence within the empty figures. Light and dark, tone and line, draw fastenings and detailed stitches embroidering the rich tapestry of life.

Sun Print of plants like a Victorian herbarium made with the ultra violet light of the sun brings interior detail in soft colours invisible to the naked eye. Sometimes an aura of vitality of the plant appears around the flower as the sun 'cooks' the image. This process is the fundamental origin of the birth of photography.

Recently Susie has been playing with Pinhole cameras; the results are unexpected and also give another way of seeing; still in the stages of experimental play, the medium presents a new challenge and wide scope for new practice.

Venue Information

Address

The Globe Inn

Fore Street

Milverton

Somerset

TA4 1JX

For Venue Information

01823 400470

Directions

From roundabout on B3227 proceed up hill into village. Straight ahead at junction. The Globe is on the left.

Parish

Milverton

Disabled Access

Good

Refreshment Details

Quality restaurant/snacks available during licencing hours

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