Professor Richard Sawdon Smith exhibits work in celebration of LGBT+ History Month 2022
The work presented will contribute a triptych to ‘Out in the Picture’, a Queer exhibition of self-portraiture featuring local Norwich artists.
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The exhibition is a celebration of LGBT+ History Month, 2022.
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The work is a selection from three major projects from Professor Sawdon Smith’s twenty-year career as an award-winning photographer; The Damaged Narcissist, The Anatomical Man, his tattooed alter ego and the recent, The Unknowing…X, a project about playing in the dressing up box, remembering previous lives lived and creating new personas for the future. Although from separate projects, they are presented together as a triptych that explores the connections and synergies of his singularly focused practice on Queer representation. Richard creates a way of detaching himself from the self in the images, enabling dialogue about the work in the third person and their relationship to communities and institutions. Richard combines this discussion with an exploration of issues of ageing, gender, identity, sexuality, subjectivity, masculinity, and everything in between. Richard Sawdon Smith is Professor of Fine Art and Programme Director for Fine Art and Photography at NUA.
