Tiggy Maconochie
Bio
During a revolutionary time for photography in her early 20’s almost four decades ago Maconochie was a pioneer in the photography ‘review’ catapulting it from ‘craft’ to acknowledged art form. This led her to start working with and representing some of the iconic fashion photographers of the 20th and 21st Century such as Helmut Newton, Corinne Day & Horst P Horst.
Maconochie’s wide-ranging career in the creative sphere has been influential in her curatorial skills of organizing retrospective exhibitions and implementing museum shows. As executive producer she has been involved with award winning documentaries and Oscar nominated filmmakers, lecturing on photography, particularly fashion, as well as co-editing significant photographic fashion books.
Dividing her time between Soho, London and Garzon, Uruguay, this autumn sees the publication of her first art book, All the Pretty Horses, Rizzoli NY, USA which is a vast and refreshing look at the impact of the horse through art and culture. Last year her short film La Sombra was included in the artist Sarah Lucas’ Big Women film weekend, part of a 3-month exhibition of internationally renowned women artists.
‘Lost Horizons under an Endless Sky’ is her debut exhibition of mixed media; photo snaps, neon and video stills at Black Gallery – two images have been put forward for the Royal Academy 2024 Summer Exhibition, an annual eclectic mix of established artists and emerging talent that has happened yearly since 1769 and is an established event during the London Summer Season.
Statement
Landscape art is rarely the way it is but how we would like it to be. An illusion of remembrance, a dream, a glimpse through a lens (in this case a basic iPhone). It is an antidote to confusion and disorder. A vision of a way we would like it to be. It’s a way to understand our place in the cosmos. It asks questions – what is nature. A glimpse of who we are.
Sometimes the boundless sky will set you free but….. Sometimes it will close you in.
In art we express and reach out or invite in – as humans without other human beings we are lost. However, if you put a person in a landscape it is natural that this is what draws you in first, the landscape becomes a mere setting, a backdrop not the subject.
In most of these photosnaps – is an animal – more often a dog or a horse – they are the key to opening a gate: for here everything is outside …. And beyond. Most of these images are a response, when there was a lapse from the ordinary, usual or normal. A nature of temporary irregularity. An aberration connected to my lost of sight over time. The loss of my view finder eye.
