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'Evocative,
allusive and elusive: these pictures condense a range
of references and associations. We contemplate ship
figureheads,
dis-located from their prows. We think of oceans, of
fluidity, of flux and change, of journeys past, of the
battering of waves. The surreal lyricism of the female
figures resonates mythically. Once symbols of working
ships, Amazons of the sea, now reduced to sculptural
objects, items of museological curiosity'. - Liz
Wells
Liz
Nicol's work crosses landscape photography with stark
still-life figures. Combining these two disparate elements
the artist explores journey and identity through an
intriguing dialogue with her past. This fusion of components
breathes life into these figureheads' inanimate frames,
allowing them to create a distinctive 'self'.
This
book of photographs includes illuminating texts by Liz
Wells and Chris Rodrigues.
Liz
Nicol's earliest photographs were taken on the beach
where she grew up and some of these photographs with
others from her student days were used in the Figureheads
series combined with photographs taken in Maritime Museums
which were regularly visited whist on family holidays.
Edited
by Joseph Brown and Lucie Carter
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