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Susan Derges
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- Susan Derges
- Starfield - Cypress
- unique dye destruction print dry-mounted onto aluminium
- 160 by 60.5cm.; 63 by 24in.
- Executed in 2003, the present work is unique.
Provenance
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, where acquired by the present owner in January 2004
Condition
The work is in good original condition.
Held in a simple black painted wood frame under glass; unexamined out of frame.
Please telephone the department on 020 7293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Employing a process which allows her to record shadows and subtle variations of light and colour directly, Susan Derges has become an internationally renowned artist for her use of camera-less photography. Through an alchemical transformation, Derges' striking and powerful images of her surrounding natural environment are often formed as photograms, or impressions created without a lens which use torches, moonlight and flash to capture the image onto positive photographic paper. This method has also been utilized by her contemporaries such as Adam Fuss and Garry Fabian Miller.
Derges has always been interested in the creative relationship between art and science and in 2000 she conducted research at the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. In her most recent works, including Starfield - Cyprus, Derges has made use of the night itself as an open air darkroom, an innovation which is unprecedented and entirely her own. Harkening back to nineteenth century photographers' experimental attempts to expand the aesthetic possibilities of the medium, Derges continually seeks new photographic innovations. By using combined camera based and camera-less techniques in her tracking of the night sky, Derges creates works which are at once surreal and dream like, transforming the possibilities of a photographic work into something fanciful and otherworldly.
Derges has always been interested in the creative relationship between art and science and in 2000 she conducted research at the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. In her most recent works, including Starfield - Cyprus, Derges has made use of the night itself as an open air darkroom, an innovation which is unprecedented and entirely her own. Harkening back to nineteenth century photographers' experimental attempts to expand the aesthetic possibilities of the medium, Derges continually seeks new photographic innovations. By using combined camera based and camera-less techniques in her tracking of the night sky, Derges creates works which are at once surreal and dream like, transforming the possibilities of a photographic work into something fanciful and otherworldly.