STATEMENT
Home is the center weight of my work. Memory and forgetting are the counterbalances. I use the past, the expired, to create intimate experiences of the risk involved in what it means to be home, love home, leave home. My photographs are fragile, contemplative, temporal spaces; fantasy paths once trodden that yearn to be retraced, inscriptions of
'then', 'now'. The evolving, revolving door of home is where I use photography to treat memory as I will my daughter: I must nurture her, watch her mature; then let her go.
BIO
Odette England (1975, South Australia) has participated in exhibitions across Europe, the USA, and Australia including solo exhibitions at Light House, Wolverhampton, UK; Three White Walls Gallery, Birmingham, UK; and Durham Art Gallery, Durham, UK; and in group exhibitions at KLOMPCHING GALLERY, New York, NY; Photofusion, London UK; the Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO; Host Gallery, London, UK: and the Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR.
She is a two-time UK winner of the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Photographers competition and has achieved wins and honorary mentions in the Px3 De La Photographie Paris competition; the London International Creative Competition; and the International Photography Awards. Most recently, she is the recipient of the HotShoe Photofusion Award 2010.
England lives in Rhode Island and is represented in the US (east coast) by KLOMPCHING GALLERY.