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Jerwood Space, London. Tue 4-Sun 30 Jan
Not only did Jeremy Deller, represented by Glasgow’s Modern Institute, scoop the Turner Prize this year, but the Jerwood Photography Prize, announced earlier in the month, boasted two Scottish-based winners — Emma Hamilton and Sarah Lynch. Although a lot of their work is done in the studio, that’s where the similarities end.
Emma Hamilton’s ‘Flores Carneus’ series caught the judges’ eyes with what looked like waxy deep-red still lives set against a dramatic black background. But wax they ain’t - look closer. The budding, blossoming flowers, arranged in elaborate sprays are meat. Bloody cuts of ‘pluck’ — intestines, lung, trachea, pig skin, tongue, liver and bacon, all neatly stitched together with exotic ripeness, are the work of Hamilton’s own fair hands. ‘My family are butchers,‘ she says. ‘So I've always been surrounded by meat - I’ve spent a lot of time in freezers.’ Hamilton graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone this year in Painting and Drawing and is fascintated by Dutch still lives - the notion of symbolism and the passing of time. ‘I wanted them to
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look beautiful,‘ she says. ‘I‘m interested in the colours - some of them start off silvery pink, but then they go red very quickly.‘
A common problem for meat sculptors (she should have a word with Beagles and Ramsay). The solution? Make a rose head and stick it in the freezer and repeat the process until ready for complete montage, when they all come out for defrosting and final arranging. And without spoiling too much of the magic, the units come from 8&0 and the vases from TK Maxx. Romantic, erotic and dramatic — the camera never lies.
Meanwhile, Edinburgh College of Art graduate, Sarah Lynch’s ‘Suspended Realities’ — clean, minimalist executions of balance and delicate tension, are a whole lot less visceral. Grapes are suspended by wires, held on by the tiniest thread, all ready to collapse or spring away. ‘They’re about the whole event,’ Sarah says. ‘It’s not just the object, but about capturing the grape and the tension. It makes you realize it is a moment that could go either way.’ So that’s Ug = mgh, or gravitational energy equals weight
times changes in height, then. [Google‘s a wonderful thing]. Potential energy in still. (Ruth Hedges)
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