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AESTHETICS OF TRANSPARENCY – FRANCIS BACON AND X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHY

I will be talking on Francis Bacon’s engagement with radiography at the interdisciplinary postgraduate conference ‘in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion’ at the University of Birmingham, 27th June 2013. More on the conference’s website.

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METAMORPHOSES

Francis Bacon Metamorphoses presents twenty of the most compelling comparisons between the wide-ranging imagery that Bacon collected and the paintings they informed. I was sponsored by The Estate of Francis Bacon to undertake a twelve-month research project, working with Bacon’s original … Continue reading

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