Instagram Takeover: Marysa Dowling

Marysa Dowling’s practice considers human exchange, exploring how people interact with each other and their environments.

Her playful and thoughtful projects use photography to build connections across communities and societies. Dowling has recently finished a two-year residency at Great Ormond Street Hospital, through visual research with patients, families, and staff, she explored ways in which we care, communicate and connect through our hands.

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Good afternoon @marysadowling here. I’m delighted to begin my @photoworks_uk takeover today. Over the coming week I’ll be sharing some developing works, recent connections and research between projects, some of which have taken me by surprise, plus a 10 year project currently being made into a book. These images were made in Guadalajara, Mexico last year for The Conversation. Having worked in Mexico for the last 7 summers I’ve developed strong connections and ways of working with students, other artists and local communities there. I wanted to create a long term project using portraiture as a way to invite connections and conversations between women in Mexico and the UK. The Conversation begins with ideas about what we want to share. We choose a location and start to play with what’s around us, concentrating on gestures, the body and interactions with the environment. This year I’ll be working with women from @colectivohilos @itesouniversidad in Guadalajara and @allchangearts here in London to develop portraits with the women, initiating an exchange of both images and words through simple actions and gestures. #photoworks_uk #marysadowling #instagramtakeover #photography

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Blue Bag, Cape Town 2010. Today I’ll be sharing a few more portraits from my 10 year project, Blue Bag @marysadowling for #photoworks_uk #instatakeover The wonderful @francescamaffeogallery is supporting me through the final stages of pulling everything together for my first book. It’s taken a long time to get this far, now for the exciting part of working on the finer details. #bluebag #marysadowling #francescamaffeogallery #marysadowling #instagramtakeover  #photography

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She is currently working on a project connecting women in the UK and Mexico through photographic portraiture, whilst also developing her first book of a 10-year portraiture project. Dowling has undertaken commissions and exhibited in the UK, Ireland, USA, Cuba, South Africa, Mexico, India and Lebanon. Group and solo exhibitions include The Photographers Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Tate and Belfast Exposed.

 

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Blue Bag, Sharif, Beirut, Lebanon 2010. @marysadowling #photoworks_uk see previous posts for more info about Blue Bag. #marysadowling #instagramtakeover #bluebag #themovementofanobject #photography #creatingnarratives #bluebag

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A few research images from @doremiresidency 2018 spending time thinking about what connects to my practice in the landscape, gesture and playing with shapes. #photoworks_uk  #marysadowling #instagramtakeover  #photography

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