Geoff Jaeger | Congratulations Marea Reed
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23 Feb Congratulations Marea Reed

Posted at 00:18h in Archive, Gallery Posts, GkJE Galleries, Photography by

Congratulations to photographer Maria Reed for making the Director’s Cut of the 64th Blake Prize with her photograph Down To The River.

Dow to the River – © Marea Reed 2015

Down to the River – © Marea Reed 2015

Using a painterly process, Marea captures moments of youthful melancholy and magic.

Exhibiting at GkJE 1 in 2015’s Head On Photo Festival and A Bit Blue 3, Maria’s photography is a very personal exploration of her own childhood memories and dreams, illustrating how they can meld together, leaving only the emotion.

“My childhood hummed with a sense of the magical beyond the green suburbs,” Marea recalls, “and a longing for the embrace and inclusion.” In this exhibition, Marea attempts to recreate the lonely awkwardness of adolescence, while evoking memories that shift constantly between the vivid and the opaque.

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