Sian Bonnell: Lessons from the Audience
The responses of audiences over the years have had quite a profound impact on how I have developed my work and on at least two occasions this response has led to a major re-think on my part. Despite the knowledge that a viewer may be triggered into a different reading of the image than was intended, I had not been prepared for these readings to affect some form of change in my own interpretation and communication of the work.
My photographs have the appearance of absurdity and are conjured from the most banal of experiences and objects. The methodology that I have developed over 30 years is one that is open-ended, experimental and exploratory. I will work with whatever is there to hand and wherever I am—I ...
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