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Antony Crossfield

London,

Born 1972, UK. Lives and works in London.<br><br>My work explores the relationship between the body ...

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Antony Crossfield

Joined In 2010

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About the artist

Antony Crossfield

Joined In 2010

(14 Followers)

ABOUT
EDUCATION

Born 1972, UK. Lives and works in London.

My work explores the relationship between the body and identity whilst also questioning traditional conceptions of corporeality and of the male nude. In my photography the body is presented as unstable, ambiguous, permeable, and lacking a singular coherent form. I depict the body not as a protective envelope that defines and unifies our limits, but rather, a place of interface between the subject and the other. The bodys boundaries are questioned and the closure and integrity of the self is placed in doubt. In my work the body is no longer the space that secures the idea of self, it is the domain where the self is contested and called into question.

Photography is a particularly appropriate medium for my purposes given its historical associations and recent digital transformation. Photography once appeared to provide us with causally generated truthful records of things in the world. It reinforced the Cartesian idea of a disembodied self, capable of attaining certain knowledge from a stable viewpoint. In the digital age this definition of photography has collapsed, yet the belief in the photograph as a faithful record of reality stubbornly persists. I see an analogous shift ...

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2008
Solo Exhibition: Antony Crossfied: Exposures, Inscriptions, Morpholgies. MiTO Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

SWAB -Barcelona Art Fair, Barcelon, Spain

ARCO 08 - Madrid Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.

2007
Arte Lisboa 2007 - Lisbon Art Fair, Portugal.

PX3 Awards Exhibition, Galerie13 Svign, Paris.

Pix Digital Awards 13 Exhibition, Splashlight Studios, New York.

2006
The Death of Taste Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London.

PDNs Pix Digital Imaging Award 2006 Exhibition Splashlight Studios, New York City, USA.

2005
AOP Open, Association of Photographers Gallery, London

2002
Royal Photographic Society 145th International Print Competition, UK Wide Touring Exhibition

Open, Caf Gallery Projects, London

Design Now Graphics, Design Museum, London

2001
Letchworth 2nd Easter open, The Place, Letchworth

2000
Lauderdale House Photographic Competition Exhibition, Lauderdale House, London

1993
BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London



SELECTED AWARDS

2007
First Prize-Portraiture-Other PX3: Prix de la Photographie Paris

2006
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