Biography

Love has recently completed a PhD at Chelsea College of Art & Design, and is Pathway Leader for MA Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art/Photography at The University of Northampton, and is Visiting Lecturer in Printmaking at The University of Brighton. Love’s research explores the notion of dust, as generating new perceptions of viewing surface, materiality and time of the printed photographic image. Love exhibits widely both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Behind the eyes: making pictures, Gallery North, Newcastle; Viewfinder, Artspaceh Gallery, Seoul, Korea; British Printmaking Japan, Kyoto Museum & Art Gallery, Japan; Scope: New Photographic Practices, Tsinghua University, Beijing; Grey Matters, Aqffin Gallery, London. Love lives and works in London.

Open Folio

Dust: Defining the invisible
‘If absence is the most compelling form of presence,
then emptiness is pregnant with fullness’
(Paul.W. Ashton, Evocations of Absence, Spring Journal Inc, 2007 back cover).

My practice emerges from my recent PhD research, which examines how we understand and perceive surface and space within an image, particularly where both digital and hand-drawn marks co-exist. It investigates how the visual presence of (or illusion of) dust generates a fundamental shift in the perception and reading of the photographic printed image within contemporary fine art practice. A central aspect of the research is a body of practical work investigates the clash between our perception of the illusionistic space of the photographic image and the simultaneous emphasis on the physical picture surface created by drawing of surface dust, and suggests that this clash offers new avenues for the visual image to explore perceptions of space, temporality, and mortality.