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Art Review July 2006.
+ British Vogue April 2006.
+ I.D. Magazine [London] April 2006.
+ Ruf, Beatrix, ed. My work has been published in several publications including Crash magazine, K Magazine and The Telegraph on Saturday. Over these four years I lived with Amanda staying for three months with each visit.
Amanda invited me to stay with her family in the bohemian town of Woodstock, upstate New York.
How did it work over four years?
“Pull Back the Shade 2004” is a pictorial journey, documenting with total candor Amanda Jo Williams’s relationship with her partner and young twin daughters. Continue reading ↓
“Pull Back the Shade” was first shown at the Tate Britain; it’s currently on view through March 29, 2008 at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
How did you connect?
The geographical context definitely allowed Amanda to live out her life vicariously through the cultural products or the trappings of given scenes—say a music scene—all of which was underwritten, or informed by their position as cultural producers. The Independent: Talent Issue January 2006.
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+ Bytheway, Bev, ed.
A rural American story?
This piece functions as a quiet contemplation on the nature of identity, which does illustrate a contemporary American society and the various social, financial, and political structures that define it.
Some of the places you went together—Woodstock, Asbury Park, New York City—are all major pinpoints on the map of American music.
Nearly 40 years later, the festival’s mythical resonances continue to permeate the municipality and inform the lifestyles of its inhabitants. To date, my work has gained recognition and awards through the Guardian Student Awards, Fuji Awards, London Photographic Award , L.P.A-5 and the Metro Imagery Bursary.
The Tate Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary British Art. London: Tate Publishing, 2006.
+ Hall, Nick. By creating visual narratives that blend fact and fiction, Quawson draws inspiration from American New Wave cinema and its portrayals of outsiders and antiheroes while utilising a diverse tonal range that alternates between the informality of the snapshot and the iconic quality of the film still.
By projecting this work and transforming it into a cinematic idiom, the constructed identities adopted by these individuals are highlighted against the everyday realities of their lives.
The town’s name is synonymous with the Woodstock music and arts festival in 1969—a free festival where nearly 400,000 people came together to celebrate peace and love—this has been romanticized and idealized in American popular culture as the culmination of the hippy movement. Often spending months on location and living with her chosen subjects, she gradually unpacks the various cultural tropes that underpin their sense of self.
The individuals to whom Quawson is drawn assert their identities through a blend of references informed by cinema, music, and the history of popular culture.
I have exhibited in the former Hackney Downs Secondary School, University of Canterbury, Speak for Gallery Tokyo, jousse Enterprise Paris and the Royal College of Art London. London, 1978
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EDUCATION
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2004-2006
+ MA in Fine Art Photography, Royal College of Art, London, England
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1998-2001
+ BA in Photography, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Kent, England
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2008
+ Pull Back the Shade, Yossi Milo Gallery
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2006
+ Generation, Photography Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, England
+ Wandering Star, GANA Art Centre, Seoul, Korea
+ Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, England
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2005
+ Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse, Manchester; LOT and Spike Island, Bristol; Barbican Art Gallery, London
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2004
+ The World, José Enterprise, Paris; Speak 4 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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2003
+ La crise économique, c'est fantastique, José Enterprise, Paris, France
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2008
+ «Muzi Quawson: Pull Back the Shade.» Aperture Spring 2008.
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2007
+ «Who's Hot and Who's Not: Muzi Quawson.» American Photo November 2007.
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2006
+ [Artist Feature].
I have been commissioned by Grey Worldwide Ltd, Random House and Guardian Umlimited with my collective Documentography, to document the 2004 American Election . After a chance meeting in Manhattan in 2002, I became friends with Amanda. London: New contemporaries Ltd, 2005.
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AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
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2005
+ Residency, School of Visual Arts, New York City, USA
+ Leverhulme Trust, UK
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Born 1978 London, England
Muzi Quawson is a visual artist primarily working with photography and 16 mm film.
She earned a BA (hons) First Class in Photography from the UCA, Kent and completed an MFA in Photography at the Royal College of Art in London
Artist Statement
Rooted in the tradition of documentary photography, Quawson’s practice explores the lives of individuals on the margins of mainstream society.
An old American story?
Muzi Quawson
Biography
B 1978 London
2001 Kent Institute of Art and Design
I graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in 2001. I am studying Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2006 .
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Pull Back the Shade
Interview by Bridget Fitzgerald
How did you meet Amanda?