The Moon and A Smile

Fox, Anna (2017) The Moon and A Smile. [Exhibition/show, Photography]

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Installation of Langland's Bay Golf Course from the series The Moon and a Smile

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Sketty Hall from the project The Moon and a Smile

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Penllegare Gardens, from the project The Moon and a Smile

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Caswell Bay from the project The Moon and a Smile

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Langland's Bay Golf Course from the project The Moon and a Smile

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Margham Hall orangery from the project The Moon and a Smile

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Installation shot The Moon and a Smile - Anna Fox

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Installation Paris Photo from Collection of British Photography

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Installation Paris Photo from Collection of British Photography

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Cherry Blossom from the project The Moon and a Smile

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The Moon and a Smile Portfolio (8MB)

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The Moon and A Smile: private view invitation (755kB)

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Programme for the Lure of the Archive Symposium, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery (35kB)

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Creators:

Fox, Anna

Description/Abstract:

This project is commissioned by the Glynn Vivian Gallery in Swansea (who commissioned 8 women artists) and is a response to the recent reattribution of the Dillwyn photographs. The Dillwyn archive is a fascinating source of information about early photographic methods and the life of the upper middle classes in Britain in the late 1800’s. Particularly pertinent is the revision of authorship in the archive so that Mary Dillwyn is acknowledged as photographer alongside her (better known) father John Dillwyn. The archive demonstrates the highly inventive character of the photographers and illuminates some of the earliest experiments with the medium.
This project involved developing my interest in the contemporary leisure industry through rephotographing many of the sites photographed by the Dillwyns (that had been private property or space reserved for the leisured classes) to look at how they are used by the leisure industry today as democratised spaces. The work made continues the interests ignited in the Loisirs project exploring the relationship between time and memory in documentary photography. Six large and medium scale digitally joined photographs of the local leisure industry and three separate images, shot on 5x4, of flower portraits from the Penllegare Gardens (originally the Dillwyn's garden now public) - the flower portraits are re-iterations of Dillwyn flower portraits (original Dillwyn images shot on private property, Fox's images shot in the now public gardens). The show is accompanied by a catalogue with essay by Kate Best.

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Art/Design Item

Date:

February 2017

Funders:

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, University for the Creative Arts

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Swansea Stories exhibition, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

27 September 2019