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Liz Nicol

Chimera - Objectograph

Chimera - Objectograph

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Title: Chimera

Artist: Liz Nicol

Size: 23cm x 18cm

Type: Original Unique Print

Subject: Countryside

Medium: Objectograph

Mounted: No

Framed: Yes - Box Frame

Chimera is a series of 5 photographs, reconstructs specimen butterflies, (ethically sourced) recreating an imaginary species. At first glance they look natural on closer inspection the wing patterns are not mirrored. As many species of butterfly become extinct, we could regretfully regard them as icons of climate change.

Objectographs - were made in the darkroom, working with an almost obsolete piece of equipment that lies somewhere between a camera and an enlarger. Objects are placed on an illuminated sheet of glass and the image of the object is then transferred via a flat-field lens onto a glass screen. In this case the objects are traced directly onto the emulsion of the photographic paper, a negative print.

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Liz Nicol

Liz Nicol is a photographer who lives and works in Exeter and Venice, recent projects are responses to ‘places of conflict’, including WW1 sites of commemoration (France and Belgium), the politically contested space of the Green Line (Cyprus) and the fragile ecological environment of the salt marshes of the Venetian Lagoon. The photographic element incorporates camera based and camera-less imagery, she predominantly works with black & white photography (analogue) and the historical process of the blueprint, the cyanotype.

Nicol had an established career in education, as a teacher, and a senior manager her later research projects included a residency at Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC) Cyprus that was established between the Land/Water and the Visual Arts research group at Plymouth University and NiMAC, 2013. As one of the co-investigators of Remember Me. The Changing face of Memorialisation, an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) funded project in collaboration with Hull University (2015–2018), she developed an interest in the national identity of WW1 monuments and flowing from this is her commissioned project on the war cemeteries, designed by Edwin Lutyens.