In this on-going series of in conversations hear from leading individuals talk about how they use photography as artists, scientists, educators, publishers and curators. All our speakers are recent RPS Award recipients who have been recognised for their contribution to the medium. They are discussing their work with those who know them and their work.
Joy Gregory HonFRPS in conversation with curator
Zelda Cheatle
Joy was awarded a RPS Honorary Fellowship in 2019
Joy Gregory is a graduate of Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. She has developed a practice which is concerned with social and political issues with particular reference to history and cultural differences in contemporary society.
‘It’s Time the Old Rulebook Was Rewritten’: Artist Marianna Simnett on the Virtues of Shocking Imagery and Difficult Art
Simnett says artists need to stick to their guns and insist on radicality.
Worst Gift (video still, 2017). Courtesy the artist and Matt s Gallery.
Five years ago, Marianna Simnett was sitting in a doctor’s office with a syringe an inch away from her throat. A surgeon was about to insert a dose of Botox into her neck to lower her voice a painful procedure, she told me in her Berlin studio last month, that would affect her speech for about three months as part of an artwork titled