Hannah Starkey

curated by Diarmuid Costello.

Hannah Starkey is one of the most influential and significant photographers of her generation.She creates images that emerge from the split second of the everyday and are resolved into what appears to be an extended moment in time.

Her work is exquisitely composed, drawing on the languages of cinema and of painting to create scenes in which the figure and the surroundings are held in perfect tension, each defining the other. This is the first retrospective exhibition of Starkey’s work in a decade.

The exhibition has been curated by Diarmuid Costello who is a member of staff in the Philosophy Department of the University of Warwick. He is interested in the philosophy of photography and particularly in what distinguishes photography as an artistic medium. He is Co-Director of the AHRC funded research project, ‘Aesthetics after Photography,’ in collaboration with Margaret Iversen from the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex.

A fully illustrated publication, which includes an interview with Hannah Starkey by Diarmuid Costello and an essay by Margaret Iversen, accompanies the exhibition.

Over to You: People Picturing Coventry
We want you to be part of the exhibition and the Mead Gallery. In response to Hannah Starkey’s works, take a photograph of someone in an inspiring place in Coventry and send it in to us.

There will be an exhibition of images on the website and outside the Mead Gallery. Hannah Starkey has offered a print of one of her works to the picture she likes the most.

You can download the full brief from this page.

Artist talk POSTPONED until Tue 1 Mar due to personal circumstances