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Diane
Bruford
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Statement This project seeks to examine the boundaries between notions of beauty and disfigurement with regard to the human body. My practice confronts the taboos which necessitate that some kinds of scars are kept hidden. It exposes the paradox that some scars may be seen as acceptable, beautiful, or even erotic, while others provoke negative reactions in the viewer. It is an examination of the scar as a signifier of beauty, eroticism, horror, bravery and worship. The images question society’s consistency regarding judgements of beauty and censorship. Through the exhibition of a series of photographs of bodies which trace and transgress the boundaries of accepted norms of beauty, the viewer is challenged to question and re-evaluate their ideals and beliefs regarding what may be considered beautiful.
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Education 2004
MA Fine Art: Print, Wimbledon School of Art 1990-1993
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Loughborough College of Art & Design
Exhibitions 2004
MA Show, Wimbledon School of Art 2002
BHF Bank, London 2001
generate, Ferens Gallery, Hull 2000
Driven to Abstraction, Beecroft Gallery, Southend 1999
On the Shelf, Firstsite, the Minories art gallery, Colchester 1999
Out on a Limb, University of Essex Gallery 1998
Focal Point Photography Gallery
Collections Jackson & Jackson Chartered Accountants, London
Bursaries 1997
Digital Development Bursary, Focal Point Gallery
Other
Information My work is held in the
databases of Commissions East, the public art commissioning agency for the
Eastern region, and the International Centre for Women in Photography at
the University of Staffordshire.
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