Klimt in the Care Home (after Gustav Klimt)

Anna Grayson is a graduate of St Andrews University and worked all her career in the media, mainly as a science writer and BBC presenter. As a mature student she attended Art College in Exeter and quickly achieved success with her photographic re-makes of famous works of art.

 

She has exhibited at the RA in London, the RWA in Bristol and SWAc in Exeter, and her pictures are in private collections in London and around the world. She has been exhibiting regularly at the Artizan Gallery since its inception in 2014. As well as photography Anna works with ceramics and print making.

 

This piece was one that was produced in celebration of Anna's long marriage to Des Maxwell Clark, also an earth scientist turned artist. While he paints watercolours that look like photographs, Anna takes photographs that look like paintings:

 

Klimt in the Care Home was shot to celebrate their ruby wedding, but with a distinct hope they’d make it to gold. Several art historians, including foxy James Fox and Sister Wendy (that well known authority on sexual relationships) have asserted that the embrace is coercive, that the woman is recoiling. Finding a photograph of Klimt cuddling a pussycat, Anna found herself disagreeing. So, her kiss is full of tender and enduring love. The blankets were made by Anna’s late Aunt whose family had been friendly with Magritte, so a good pedigree, and also a tiny nod to the textiles in Tracey Emin’s Tent. Anna had trouble keeping hers in place, running from the camera, set on ten second delay, to her tricky position on a re-arranged sofa with bewigged husband.

Digital Print on Archival Paper.

 

29.7x42cm

Unframed

Edition of 100