The fundamental aim of this research has been to produce an original body of work, which engages with theoretical and key texts enabling me to place my practical photographic work within a contemporary critical framework. Whilst work has been informed by theoretical concerns, the work is by no means an illustration of theory. My engagement with key texts has acted as a springboard for an imaginative practice that allows for an experimental approach. My exploitation of the photographic medium has extended the possibilities of an engagement with certain subject areas and themes, most notably the subject of the female figure within representation. The body of research presents a representation of the female figure which disrupts and questions notions of the female as object rather than subject. The work aims to present and reflect elements of female experience. In this research project I have investigated the formal construction of the photographic image with particular reference to colour and composition in order to construct meaning, whilst paying particular attention to viewer relationships. My analysis of formal construction has been informed by the work of other artists both past and present. Practical photographic work will be presented at the City Gallery, Leicester 2nd - 7th April 2001.
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