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Trish Morrissey »

New Works

Exhibition: 10 Jul – 11 Sep 2004

Impressions Gallery

Centenary Square
BD1 1SD Bradford

08450-515882


www.impressions-gallery.com

A major exhibition of new work by Trish Morrissey. Commissioned by Impressions, the show includes photographs and video work created over a two-year period and is inspired by family photo albums and family relationships. In a series of elaborately staged portraits, Morrissey worked closely with her elder sister to impersonate family members (both real and imagined) and re-enact memories familiar to all of us - childhood birthdays or holidays at the seaside. The resulting series of colour photographs is titled Seven Years, referring to the age gap between Morrissey and her sister. She made the images at her former family home in Dublin, using old clothes found in her parents' attic or searching second hand shops for the perfect prop, to meticulously recreate the atmosphere of the seventies and eighties. In contrast to most family photos, the people in her images rarely smile, allowing the viewer to concentrate on the gestures and body language which reveal hidden tensions between family members. They are at once nostalgic and unsettling. Accompanying the photographs are two new video works. In the bittersweetEighteen and Forty Five, two women wearing a wedding dress (whose faces we never see) dance in the harsh surroundings of a suburban back yard, whilstEleven and Three Quarters shows a small boy chasing an elusive rabbit round a garden. Both pieces evoke a sense of yearning: a feeling of not quite being able to grasp one's dreams.