Artist Statement
My artistic practice encompasses photography, video, installation and performance. I use photographs of objects and people to question issues of artificiality and idealisation. My artwork forms an enquiry into the act of looking and being looked at. Referring to psychoanalysis, phenomenology and feminism I examine my own experience of becoming an object of sight and also consider the experience the viewer has when looking at me as a female, and a photographic object. Voyeurism and exhibitionism intertwine as I attempt to disrupt relationships of power in purposefully provocative scenes.
Dawn Woolley trained as a fine art printmaker. She completed her undergraduate degree in 2001 and has since developed a photography-based practice that encompasses digital video, installation and performance as well as photo-based installations.
In 2008 she completed an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art, receiving a distinction for her dissertation and an award for excellence for her graduation exhibition. In the spring of 2008 she undertook a three month studio residency at Cite des Arts in Paris.
Recent exhibitions have included; “Look Attractive” UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, (2012), “Create, Observe, Perform” Alkovi Gallery, Helsinki (2012), “Portmanteau” Halle 14, Leipzig (curated by G39 Cardiff), “My World: Visions of 21st Century Feminism” in the European Women’s Lobby, Brussels (2010), “Start Your Collection” at The London Art Fair (2009), “Fotomonth” in Krakow, Poland (2007) and solo exhibitions in Vilniaus Fotografijos Galerija, Lithuania (2012), Ffotogallery in Cardiff (2011), South Square Gallery, Bradford (2009), and The Lighthouse Art Centre in Wolverhampton (2006). Her artwork is held in a number of collections including; The Royal College of Art, London, the Museum of Photographic Arts in Kiyosato, Japan and in The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Dawn Woolley currently lives and works in Cardiff, UK and is a photography lecturer at Bridgend College. She is co-director of the curatorial project Another Product, which she founded with James Moore in 2003.
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