Artist Statement
Andy Sewell has been described as a bright new talent likely to make his mark on the future of photography by Martin Parr.
His recent work The Heath is series of subtle and complex photographs taken over five years on Hampstead Heath in London. It is in the collections of the V&A and the National Media Museum.
Process Statement
The Heath navigates a physical space, which is compelling and contradictory and an interesting space within the landscape tradition. His pictures deal with the effect that place has on us as well as the effect that we have on it. Concerns common to the Romantic artists and poets of the nineteenth century who used Hampstead Heath as subject and inspiration. Without being overtly referential his work feels engaged with this Romantic tradition while being firmly placed in the present. A contemporary sensibility filtering ancient concerns. He creates a view neither sentimental nor idealised but one that discovers the quite and at times disquieting poetry found by looking closely at what surrounds us.
Andy Sewell has been described by Martin Parr as a bright new talent likely to make his mark on the future of photography. His work is in the collections of the V&A and the National Media Museum.
The Heath his first book was published in July 2011. ‘This is a book of suggestion, a landscape of the imagination as well as a record of a real and familiar place. A classic of understated observation.’ Sean O’Hagan, The Guardian, 17th July 2011.
He is a winner of the Magenta Award 2007 and was selected for inclusion in the book Flash Forward 2009, a review of emerging Photographers. His work was shown as part of Krakow Photo Month (May 2010) in an exhibition on the future of British photography and has been exhibited in London and New York and featured in the British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, Exit, Photoeye, PDN and Hotshot Magazine. He will be participating in Plat(t)form 2012 at Fotomuseum Winterhur.
He is represented by James Hyman Gallery, London, who showed The Heath at Paris Photo 2011 and by Robert Morat Gallery, where it will be exhibited May 2012. The work has been selected for inclusion in an upcoming show on the British landscape at the National Media Museum (UK).
When not working on personal projects he undertakes commissions for clients including: The Telegraph Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, FT Magazine, GQ, The Sunday Times Magazine, and Phaidon.
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