Sarah Jones is a visual artist and photographer. She was born in London in 1959, gained international recognition in the mid 1990s coinciding with the completion of an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College in London in 1996.
Jones’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally, also has received a number of awards including ACE and recent residency at Yaddo Artists Colony, Saratoya New York.
She has distanced herself from traditional portrait photography. Her photographic technique highlights the relationship between her life - size subjects - domestic spaces and people, often adolescent girls and the spectator. She memorialize passive adolescents in their own homes, a generation and specially an age which is disillusioned, calm and sometimes dramatic. Penetrating their intimacy in order to produce series of artificial images of a voluntarily inexpressive nature, she captured these young girls in the gardens of their homes 1998 secret spaces, applying the same strict rules of composition.
On these series Jones seems to have used studio lighting, a strong and diffused light source, in some images she uses more than one individual subject in her work, focusing on the tension and relationship between the adolescents. Her work are very powerful for the certain that she photographed adolescents in such a ordinary and dramatic way.
REFERENCE
- http://www.antonkerngallery.com/artist.php?aid=15
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_2_38/ai_57475813/
Fascinating work!
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