PHOTO/STITCH
'Blurring the Boundaries between Photography and Stitch' is an ongoing collaborative project between Mandy and her daughter, the photographer Jo West.
Both share a fascination for the Bloomsbury group and the writings of Virginia Woolf. Their latest body of work, exhibited at Dimbola Photographic Musuem on the Isle of Wight, explores two of the landscapes that were so important to Virginia Woolf - the River Ouse in Sussex, where Virginia ended her life, and St Ives and Godrevy Lighthouse where the Woolf family holidayed and which later became the inspiration for ‘ To the Lighthouse’. Through a novel that explores family life Mandy, Jo and her little daughter Bea also explore the complex family relationships over three generations - echoing the three generations that join Virginia Woolf and her great aunt Julia Margaret Cameron.
Mandy uses stitch to develop and extend Jo’s photographs, with an illustrator’s eye for storytelling. Jo achieves a depth and texture in some of her work by printing her black and white darkroom images onto fabric. Together they interweave a history of place, people and landscape relating to Virginia Woolf and through their work create a new story.
Blurred Boundaries: Stitch, Photography
and the Landscapes of Virginia Woolf
30th August-29th October 2014
