Cheryl Newman - Last Night We Had the Same Dream
Last Night We Had the Same Dream, the good girl, 2024, photograph of original collage of family archive with inks. Photographed on 5x4 and medium format and printed on Awagami paper. The collages are photographs from my family archive and reveal my mother and aunts as brides, and me as the Good Girl, dressed in white printed on delicate fabrics as fragile as my memories.
How can a photograph describe the passage of time? Last night we had the same dream, that the tree was missing has become an allegory for my history. I have been photographing the tree for many years; it is a constant visual poem for the passing of time and for loss. Approaching the space and witnessing its disappearance has a profound effect on my image making. It is now a stage to revisit lost family, bringing with it memories of childhood, of relationships and friendships. Through intervention, using archive family images collaged together I bear witness to the ticking clock and use the space to bring magic and mythology to the ghosts that inhabit it. My work is an exploration of the human condition creating landscapes of emotions, I reach back, bringing to life memories as memento mori. Photographed on 5x4 and medium format and printed on Awagami paper. The collages are photographs from my family archive and reveal my mother and aunts as brides, and me as the Good Girl, dressed in white printed on delicate fabrics as fragile as my memories.
I am an artist working primarily with photography and collage. My practice explores love, desire, family history and is an exploration of the human condition described as landscapes of emotions. I explore my history through thematic narratives to examine photographic representation of memory. My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. I serve on international juries including as consultant and judge for The Moran Prize for Contemporary Photography, Sydney, Australia 2015-2019, The Eugene Smith Grant’, jury 2019 and the UK Press Awards 2023 and I was the chair of the RPS Photography Awards 2017-2019 and is on the advisory board for the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant. I have an MA in Photography Arts from the University of Westminster and is an associate lecturer at UAL, and Southbank University, London.
Cheryl Newman - Last Night We Had the Same Dream
Last Night We Had the Same Dream, the good girl, 2024, photograph of original collage of family archive with inks. Photographed on 5x4 and medium format and printed on Awagami paper. The collages are photographs from my family archive and reveal my mother and aunts as brides, and me as the Good Girl, dressed in white printed on delicate fabrics as fragile as my memories.
How can a photograph describe the passage of time? Last night we had the same dream, that the tree was missing has become an allegory for my history. I have been photographing the tree for many years; it is a constant visual poem for the passing of time and for loss. Approaching the space and witnessing its disappearance has a profound effect on my image making. It is now a stage to revisit lost family, bringing with it memories of childhood, of relationships and friendships. Through intervention, using archive family images collaged together I bear witness to the ticking clock and use the space to bring magic and mythology to the ghosts that inhabit it. My work is an exploration of the human condition creating landscapes of emotions, I reach back, bringing to life memories as memento mori. Photographed on 5x4 and medium format and printed on Awagami paper. The collages are photographs from my family archive and reveal my mother and aunts as brides, and me as the Good Girl, dressed in white printed on delicate fabrics as fragile as my memories.
I am an artist working primarily with photography and collage. My practice explores love, desire, family history and is an exploration of the human condition described as landscapes of emotions. I explore my history through thematic narratives to examine photographic representation of memory. My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. I serve on international juries including as consultant and judge for The Moran Prize for Contemporary Photography, Sydney, Australia 2015-2019, The Eugene Smith Grant’, jury 2019 and the UK Press Awards 2023 and I was the chair of the RPS Photography Awards 2017-2019 and is on the advisory board for the Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant. I have an MA in Photography Arts from the University of Westminster and is an associate lecturer at UAL, and Southbank University, London.