This project was selected by Photomonitor for commendation at the Free Range graduate exhibitions, July 2023.
Project Statement
Across the isles of Britain and Ireland, stories have been told of ‘others’ with the ability to change into something wild and inhuman; people who lurk outside of the village, or infiltrate amongst the folk. In cultural imagination difference can be bestial, clawed and feathered. When told from this perspective, we find tales of alienation and persecution. However, when stories are told from the perspective of ‘the other’ we find something else; transgression, autonomy, and power from conflating oneself as both human and beast.
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Biography
Abigail Tinnion is a Visual Artist and Folklorist based in the South West of England. Through her work she aims to reconnect the spectator to the ancient, organic and unknowable. She is interested in dirt, bones, ruins, spirits, dreams, rivers, creatures, transmutation, gods and forgotten things.
