Hannah Starkey was born in 1971 in Belfast, England. Starkey’s photographs use actors placed in deliberate settings that “reconstruct scenes from everyday life with the concentrated stylisation of film” (the Saatchi Gallery). Also contained in Starkey’s photographs are “women engaged in regular routines such as loitering in the street, sitting in cafes, or passively shopping.” Her work manages to capture these mundane yet daily activities with an air of ‘relational detatchment.’ According to Saatchi Gallery, “Her still images operate as discomforting ‘pauses’; where the banality of existence is freeze-framed in crisis point, creating reflective instances of inner contemplation, isolation, and conflicting emotion. Starkey enhances the feelings her images create through a careful and controlled of composition and setting. Saatchi Gallery states that “Starkey often uses composition to heighten this sense of personal and emotional disconnection, with arrangements of lone figures seperated from a group, or segregated with metaphoric physical divides such as tables or mirrors.” Starkey currently lives and works in London.
Images:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/upload/2007/06/hannahstarkeyil.jpeg
http://www.portfoliocatalogue.com/40/01.jpg
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artist.php?art_name=Hannah%20Starkey
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artist.php?art_name=Hannah%20Starkey
Gallery representing artist/artist website:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/hannah_starkey.htm
Interview:
http://www.wallpaper.com/news/Interview:_Hannah_Starkey/1295
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