Emily Andersen: Somewhere Else Entirely

About

Saturday 25 March - Saturday 13 May | 2023
Bonington Gallery, NTU City Campus
Free

This multi-channel film installation from internationally-acclaimed photographer Emily Andersen, explores the work and life of Ruth Fainlight (b.1931) – an American-born poet and writer. Ruth's intensely visual poetry and fiction touch on themes of psychological and domestic situations, time, memory and loss. This immersive installation features projections representing different fragments of her work, which visitors are invited to explore and reflect upon.

Combining installation, educational workshops and performative readings, Somewhere Else Entirely uses the work and life of Ruth Fainlight to reflect on the reciprocity of words and images, and processes of biography. The presentation of this film at Bonington Gallery is significant, as Ruth Fainlight was married to the late Alan Sillitoe, the eminent Nottingham author.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Emily Andersen is a London-based artist and graduate of the Royal College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in galleries including:

The Photographers' Gallery, London
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
China Arts Museum, Shanghai
A number of her portraits are in the permanent collection of The National Portrait Gallery, London. She has won awards including the John Kobal prize for portraiture. Her third book Another Place was published in 2023. She is a Senior Lecturer in theory and practice of photography at the Nottingham School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University.