She Took to Flight
To You, 2017 (revised 2023)
She Always Had a Gin in One Hand and a Cigarette in the Other, 2017
She Took to Flight, 2017
She Took to Flight, HOME solo exhibition at the Huddersfield Art Gallery, 2018
She Took to Flight on display in the Huddersfield Art Gallery main collection, 2019
Mother, Burnt Matchsticks, 2017
Portrait with ‘Daddy Long Legs’, 2017 (revised 2023)
She Took to Flight was commissioned by an art collector for his wife to celebrate a milestone birthday. The series draws inspiration from their home, old notebooks, photographs and newspaper articles, discovering and representing memories from her life. The symbolic bird ornament, a gift from her late mother, was photographed on a nightstand using the Hasselblad camera for close detail and then made into a large fine art print. The limited edition works have been in exhibited in several galleries and private collections.
© Olivia Hemingway