Holly Shackleton Artist

I am a developing artist studying a photography degree at London College Of Communications. I hope you like my work. Contact me at [email protected]

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My work at at the Black and White building in Shoreditch, London for Creative Debuts 6th showcase.  

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Glove 4 7th February 2015  LondonGrays Inn  17:02

PART TWO. 

More experimental adventures in the colour darkroom using camera-less photography and my bacteria infested petri dishes. This is a four piece image of four 10 by 8″ prints.

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PART ONE OF PERSONAL MANIFESTO WORK. 

The ideas around my personal manifestobegan from my obsession with collectingphotographs of lost gloves abandoned on the floor. I have expanded from this throughout this manifesto with ideas of tracking, surveillance and forensics being my inspiration. My work starts by col- lecting personal items off the city floor. I then took bacterial swabs from them and grew the bacteria from each object in a petri dish. It was important to me that these items must be personal, something the owner would miss, gloves, hats, jewellery, for example. The petri dishes were my medium which I then created images from. Constricting myself to camera-less photography you will see the results I have achieved and which are still in progress throughout this manifesto. (Taken from my manifesto blurb)

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This is how I displayed my final outcome.

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This is my final outcome for my first uni project. I based my concept around memory and the construction of it. I gained my initial inspiration from my family album photographs of me and my twin sister from when we were younger. 

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London. At night. Digital 50mm lens.

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London. Digital, nikon 50mm lens.

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London. Colour 35mm film.

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Windows London. Colour 35mm film.

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Switzerland. I took these photo's in the spring time of this year using 35mm black and white film.

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I created this body of work during my foundation year. I have used 35mm black and white film with a slow shutter speed using a tripod. I was most interesting in attempting to capture traces of life and people. This resulted in an abstract picture of time and movement. I used the market in Leeds as a main setting for these photos, mainly due to my interest with nostalgia and keeping hold of traditions which defy the modern lifestyle which is ever progressing and moving faster.

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'R.I.P' - Black and white 35mm film shot in Leeds. The beginnings of an idea based around 'the forgotten society'.

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I have an on going project of collecting photographs of found gloves. I photograph them as found on the street floor unaltered. The idea of identity and the forgotten has always been of interest to me therefore through this body of work I can combine the two. I have already made a book with this work called #28 in which I will continue to make as I find more gloves.

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My exhibition work at a group final exhibition at Leeds College Of Art for my foundation year in which I passed with a distinction.

See previous post for more detail on this body of work.

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As of 2014, twenty eight pubs a week are closing in Britain.

These are a selection of images from my photography book called 'Your Local'.

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Experimental work using a handmade contraption I made to fix onto the end of my film camera lens. I have collected stuff from around this countryside environment and placed it into my contraption. This body of work is much about realising a sense of space and place. It was important to me not to involve photoshop or editing tools within this body of work. I wanted to challenge the photographic medium, creating handmade tools rather than relying on editing programs.

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Experimental work using a handmade contraption I made to fix onto the end of my film camera lens. I have collected stuff from the environment of this beach and placed it into my contraption. I wanted to draw attention to the things disregarded within our environment, making people aware by intertwining the two together. This body of work is much about realising a sense of space and place. It was important to me not to involve photoshop or editing tools within this body of work. I wanted to challenge the photographic medium, creating handmade tools rather than relying on editing programs.