Suzanne Moxhay, Loft, 2021
Archival Pigment Print, edition of 10, 95 x 83cm (unframed)
Suzanne Moxhay’s complex images use archival or newly-taken photographs as their starting point. Combining a variety of low and high-tech techniques, her digital photomontages and etchings explore interior and exterior spaces that, in the artist’s words, ‘feel as though they have broken down and perhaps been re-claimed’.
Suzanne’s practice is informed by the theatre of film-making, and strong light sources play a key role in creating drama. New life is breathed into deserted scenes by encroaching foliage or startled birds; often an uneasy sense of stillness prevails. ‘There’s always been a bit of a play in my work between what’s inside and outside, both in literal and psychological terms. In films the sets and scenes are often used in a way to try and describe the psychology of the character or something to do with the story; that’s always interested me.’
The starting point for ‘Loft’ was photographs taken in the attic of Beckenham Place Mansion, where Suzanne has her studio. She describes it as a space ‘that really does bear the history of the building, with layers of wallpaper and strange-shaped rooms’. As in many of her works, Suzanne has added layers of detail by hand (such as the sinister black crows, which would have been cut-out and suspended from wires) before re-photographing the image. She says; ‘re-processing of imagery has always been a strong aspect of my work; I like taking the images one step away from photography.’ This work is printed with a white border (please see installation image).
Suzanne studied at Chelsea College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 2007. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally since 2002 and her work is held in many significant public and private collections including the University of the Arts Collection, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Cooper Union New York, and Oxford University. She has featured in numerous publications including The Guardian, The FT, A-N Magazine and Art World Magazine and has been profiled and interviewed on the BBC Culture Show. Oliver Projects presented Suzanne’s work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021 and 2022. She lives and works in south east London.
Archival Pigment Print, edition of 10, 95 x 83cm (unframed)
Suzanne Moxhay’s complex images use archival or newly-taken photographs as their starting point. Combining a variety of low and high-tech techniques, her digital photomontages and etchings explore interior and exterior spaces that, in the artist’s words, ‘feel as though they have broken down and perhaps been re-claimed’.
Suzanne’s practice is informed by the theatre of film-making, and strong light sources play a key role in creating drama. New life is breathed into deserted scenes by encroaching foliage or startled birds; often an uneasy sense of stillness prevails. ‘There’s always been a bit of a play in my work between what’s inside and outside, both in literal and psychological terms. In films the sets and scenes are often used in a way to try and describe the psychology of the character or something to do with the story; that’s always interested me.’
The starting point for ‘Loft’ was photographs taken in the attic of Beckenham Place Mansion, where Suzanne has her studio. She describes it as a space ‘that really does bear the history of the building, with layers of wallpaper and strange-shaped rooms’. As in many of her works, Suzanne has added layers of detail by hand (such as the sinister black crows, which would have been cut-out and suspended from wires) before re-photographing the image. She says; ‘re-processing of imagery has always been a strong aspect of my work; I like taking the images one step away from photography.’ This work is printed with a white border (please see installation image).
Suzanne studied at Chelsea College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 2007. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally since 2002 and her work is held in many significant public and private collections including the University of the Arts Collection, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Cooper Union New York, and Oxford University. She has featured in numerous publications including The Guardian, The FT, A-N Magazine and Art World Magazine and has been profiled and interviewed on the BBC Culture Show. Oliver Projects presented Suzanne’s work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021 and 2022. She lives and works in south east London.
Archival Pigment Print, edition of 10, 95 x 83cm (unframed)
Suzanne Moxhay’s complex images use archival or newly-taken photographs as their starting point. Combining a variety of low and high-tech techniques, her digital photomontages and etchings explore interior and exterior spaces that, in the artist’s words, ‘feel as though they have broken down and perhaps been re-claimed’.
Suzanne’s practice is informed by the theatre of film-making, and strong light sources play a key role in creating drama. New life is breathed into deserted scenes by encroaching foliage or startled birds; often an uneasy sense of stillness prevails. ‘There’s always been a bit of a play in my work between what’s inside and outside, both in literal and psychological terms. In films the sets and scenes are often used in a way to try and describe the psychology of the character or something to do with the story; that’s always interested me.’
The starting point for ‘Loft’ was photographs taken in the attic of Beckenham Place Mansion, where Suzanne has her studio. She describes it as a space ‘that really does bear the history of the building, with layers of wallpaper and strange-shaped rooms’. As in many of her works, Suzanne has added layers of detail by hand (such as the sinister black crows, which would have been cut-out and suspended from wires) before re-photographing the image. She says; ‘re-processing of imagery has always been a strong aspect of my work; I like taking the images one step away from photography.’ This work is printed with a white border (please see installation image).
Suzanne studied at Chelsea College of Art and The Royal Academy Schools, graduating in 2007. She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally since 2002 and her work is held in many significant public and private collections including the University of the Arts Collection, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Cooper Union New York, and Oxford University. She has featured in numerous publications including The Guardian, The FT, A-N Magazine and Art World Magazine and has been profiled and interviewed on the BBC Culture Show. Oliver Projects presented Suzanne’s work at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2021 and 2022. She lives and works in south east London.
