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BIO

Megan Nelson is a photographer and visual artist based in the West Midlands, who has just finished her final year studying BA Photography and was awarded a First Class Degree. Her practice focuses on how gender shapes our relationship with urban public spaces. By intersecting personal experiences as well as integrating other perspectives, she is able to highlight this. Her photographic work has been exhibited within the Wolverhampton School of Art, The Mander Center and at Wednesbury Art Gallery, with Tekkinpix and Multistory. She is known for her keen eye for detail and precision through the formalistic approach she takes with her photographic work, and her ability to create prominent compositions encourages the viewer to see the world in a new and thought-provoking way.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

Through my work, I seek to capture everyday life from a female perspective. Colour and form are vital elements of the photographs I take, while also incorporating the beautiful and not-so-beautiful spaces around me. I explore the urban environment, walking as a practice and how gender affects our experiences, as well as delving into their complexities in relation to historical roles and expectations within society. Furthermore, I often attempt to depict the gendered spaces that we inhabit, revealing the familiar and the unfamiliar, the seen and the unseen by focusing on the nuances and subtleties of the urban environment. I aim to create images that suggest ways in which we can consider other people's experiences as well as how we individually engage with the places we live and move through. My work takes on a formalistic approach, which in turn begins to unpack the reframing of the New Topographics while also challenging ideas about femininity, safety and the female experience. By illustrating the urban landscape in an aesthetically pleasing and intellectually engaging way, I create photographs that are more than what they seem.

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