| Salon 31 LISA WESLEY 'Studio starter' September 12th 2003 @ 8pm. |
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After the resounding success of last month's starter Photograph your Pet with Success, we were thrilled to announce that the topic of this months masterclass was The Art of Glamour & Nude Photography! The tutor for the evening was Raymond Barry. Ray has wielded cameras for over twenty years, half of those being devoted principally to Portraiture and Glamour. Ray is self taught, and makes no apologies for it! Having personally struggled to reach his current high standards, he feels it is appropriate to pass on his knowledge to anyone who will listen and learn. His approach is straight talking and good humoured, with a real passion for the subject matter. Ray promised a most enjoyable evening of theory combined with practical demonstrations followed by a live photography session with hands on experience and a cracking model! The live setsl featured GLAMOUR, TOPLESS and FIGURE (nude), composing images and adjusting lighting as we go and utilising costume and props tailored specifically to the images we'll be creating! Lisa Wesley was born in Worksop in Nottinghamshire, where she worked for seven years in a photographic studio as a glamour model. Since 1994 she has made solo, group performance work and time-based installations. She has performed and exhibited throughout Great Britain from venues as diverse as the ICA, South London Gallery to museums, public bars and clubs and has been comissioned by the BBC, The National Review of Live Art and the Now Festival. Themes and issues contained in her work concern living in contemporary Britain, the blurring of reality and fantasy, the ironic play between fact and fiction, sexual stereotyping, the deconstruction of the theatre event and a preoccupation with dialect and class structures. Audiences become voyeurs to events that might be happening behind closed doors or that they might walk past, or turn away from on the street - something ordinary becomes extraordinary by its displacement into the performance / gallery space. Audience members were asked to bring their own cameras to this event. The house was open 1-5pm on 13th September to view the images.
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