Description
OD Photo Prize 2024 | Judges’ Pick
Selected by Professor Steven MacLeod
Creative Director, Metro Imaging
Artist
Elizabeth Blackie (b.2003) is a UK based fine art photographer, whose creative exploration traverses various media, including performance, installation, and photographic methods.
With a keen focus on the interplay between humanity and nature, Blackie stages scenes where figures seamlessly integrate with the land. Focusing on an enquiry into the self, her practice explores our understanding of the world around us and the relationship between place, time, and self. Framed by both her interest in the natural landscape and personal narratives, her work blends elements of reality and fiction. Blackie employs photography as a means of communication and a form of understanding.
Artist Statement | “Led by intentions of questioning, Outlines is an ongoing introspective enquiry into the self. Uneasy with my identity and sense of place in my environment, the series is both a work of fiction and documentation of an investigation into how we can formulate an understanding of the detached self. Alluding to the subconscious, the work brings attention to the restless moments of isolation and lack of connection that can be experienced with both people and environment. Beginning as a means to understand the inexplainable feelings I was experiencing at the time, I used visual imagery to articulate these struggles. Aiming to produce a series that follows a journey of reflection, this body of work comments on the existential state of the world we currently live in, the unknown futures caused by the continuous changes and state of fear surrounding us. Depicting fragments of dreams and nightmares, contemplating the known and unknown, rearranging visual perceptions of what is real. Outlines introduces a visual inquiry into how things can appear familiar but uncanny when one starts to question identity and place.“ — Elizabeth Blackie
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