A Photographic Masquerade

Marking the 40th anniversary of A Rake’s Progress, Andy Wiener presents a solo exhibition at the Studies in Photography Gallery.

Widely exhibited and published, A Rake’s Progress was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1996. In this series, Wiener used flat photographic masks of his own face to construct surreal, humorous, performance-based images that inhabit psychological rather than literal space.

In the 1980s, his work explored individual identity in relation to mass commercialisation and media influence. More recent work explores family history, memory, and loss.

Every image in the exhibition incorporates photographic masks, drawing on several bodies of work that explore sex, love, Catholicism, childhood memory, and family history.

Artist talk to be held on 6th June, see website for more info

Open Weds-Sat 12-5pm

Free admission, all artworks for sale.