Instagram Takeover: Liz Orton

Visual artist, Liz, Orton, becomes our next guest editor for our Instagram takeover, November 2016.

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Liz Orton is a visual artist using photography, video and text to explore ideas of authorship and representation in relation to land and the body. She is interested in landscape as an entanglement of people, matter and technologies. Her work engages widely with archives, both real and imagined, responding to the tensions between personal and systematic forms of knowledge.

This is @lizorton with my final post on final day of #instagramtakeover for @photoworks_uk One from the archive – from series Splitters and Lumpers. Unidentified plant matter waiting to be classified at Kew Gardens Herbarium 2010. Stratigraphy of culture/nature #lizorton #photoworks_uk #kew #kewgardens #species

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Dec 4, 2016 at 8:18am PST

Liz currently holds a Fellowship at the University of Arts London for The Longest and Darkest of Recollections, a research project about contemporary geologic practice and ideas of photographic evidence. She also has a Wellcome Trust Arts Grant for her project Digital Insides, about medical imaging.

Hallo this is @lizorton on final day of instagramtakeover for @photoworks_uk Another handmade collage from the series Deltiologies. Rethinking landscape and horizon through the photographic cut. Thanks for following me this week. Please follow @lizorton for posts after this. Thanks! #collage #landscape #horizon #photoworks_uk #lizorton

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Dec 4, 2016 at 2:16am PST

Liz graduated with an MA in Photography with Distinction from the London College of Communication in 2014. She teaches on BA Photography at LCC, and BA Fine Art at the University of the Arts Bournemouth.

Liz has extensive experience of running participatory and socially engaged photography projects. Her book A Handful of Soil for the Whole Horizon has been shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award, the Kassel Dummy Award and the Unseen Photobook Award.

@lizorton on day 5 of #instagramtakeover for @photoworks_uk This photograph is a reimagining of a found documentary image of 2 museum handlers testing how to hold objects within the frame. #lizorton #photoworks_uk

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Dec 2, 2016 at 5:35am PST

hello this is @lizorton on day 3 of #instagramtakeover for @photoworks_uk Still on work from the Longest and Darkest of Recollections. Photography and geology share the literary metaphor of reading. Rocks are read in an analogous way to photographs, offering a trace or interpretation of the past. So these geologic images demand a form of double-reading, based on dialogues between different orders of time, space and representation. In literature, rocks are both a metaphor for steadfastness and a site for exploring the human condition.

A photo posted by Photoworks (@photoworks_uk) on Nov 30, 2016 at 8:14am PST

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