Photography is on the cards for you this morning with up-and-coming creative Madeleine Kimberley. Currently a student at Falmouth University, Madeleine is about to go into her third and final year, after which she hopes “to carve-out a career in niche creative product photography, reflecting my passion for still life and the tangibility of ‘things.’”
“After completing my Art Foundation at Loughborough University, I continued my creative education by beginning a degree in Fashion design. However, I quickly realised that my heart wasn’t in it- I had always been more interested in the editorial fashion-spreads in the pages of glossy magazines than in making the clothes themselves, and concluded that image-making was something I wanted to persue. At Falmouth I have been able to find my own style that I am still experimenting with, but often leans towards the strange, the surreal and the macabre.”
“Focusing on twisting everyday inanimate objects into highly-charged tableaus, my work explores the marriage of the natural world with the interference of man: fresh blooms dripping in primary colour paints, their forms preserved in a lurid chemical cocoon… Colour plays a large part in my photography. I am obsessed with the negative space of white and the way in which a simple studio environment can become an ever-changing blank canvas for narrative. I am inspired by contemporary installation and interior spaces, and, contrastingly, by decaying architecture and the magic of antiques and forgotten objects. Both the old and the new influence my photographic technique, as I love to work with a clunky medium format analogue Bronica, but also in digital.”
“After a couple of false-starts, I can now see that my experiences in fashion and art were not a waste, as I feel their influence strongly in the way I work. With a broad creative background my work becomes quirky and individual to me.”
Follow Madeleine on her website at www.madeleinekimberley.com and Twitter @MaddyKimberley.
