Jonny Briggs born in 1985, lives and works in London UK. Briggs studied at the Chelsea College of Art (2008) and the Royal College of Art (2011) in London. He searches for lost parts of his childhood and tries to think outside the reality into which he was socialised and to create a new reality with his self and parents. Briggs uses photomontages, builds sets, disguises, repaints and remodels to make the viewer question the supposed photographic reality.
Very similar to Julia Borrisova, Jonny Briggs has taken old images and modernised them. He has experimented with giving them a new meaning. Briggs plays around with the images in order to make them his own. The images that he uses are family portraits as well as using some images personal to himself.
Jonny Brigg quotes ‘Photography provides me with an opportunity to play with perceptions of what’s real and what’s not”.
“My work perverts and transgresses the family photograph, re- rendering the past and role-reversing my parents and me; now it is me capturing them”.
He has taken place in many solo exhibitions such as :
Solo Show: Simon Oldfield Gallery, London
Solo Show; White Project, Paris
Solo Show: FaMa Gallery, Verona, Italy
The Catlin Guide, London Art Fair
Out of Focus: Saatchi Gallery, London
These images are from a series called “Sisters head upon my body , 2011”. All these images are from his own family albums. Briggs has cut through the image/frame at a diagonal and manipulated it into an image which comes across comical to the viewer. He has carefully played around on Photoshop to create images that look disjointed. When looking at his images it makes you think about why he has made it in that particular way.
Other examples of experimental work that Briggs has produced is this image of his mouth during speech pinned over the eyes of his ancestors. He uses collaging in order to create an image with a completely different meaning. By placing his lips over the eyes of this person is covers up their identity, this leaves the viewers thinking who could it possibly be.
Jonny Briggs, http://www.jonnybriggs.com, Last Accessed: 28/01/15. http://www.jonnybriggs.com
Anon, 2013, Jonny Briggs|High House Photography, Last Accessed: 28/01/15. http://www.highhousegallery.com/exhibited-artists/jonny-briggs/
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