Description
Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of approaches and media, including photography, digital imaging, film and video, writing, collecting, re-using archival materials, and online venues, Growing Up in the New Age sets out to reconsider the social utopias of the 1960s and early 1970s and discuss what we might learn from them today.
Marjolaine Ryley is an artist who has exhibited and published her work nationally and internationally including exhibitions at Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow; Impressions Gallery, Bradford; and The Palacio des Artes, Porto. Her work is held in several major collections including The Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Serralves Museum, Porto. Much of her work has explored family photography including her book Villa Mona A Proper Kind of House (Trace Editions 2006), and Field Study 7 Residence Astral (PARC 2008) which was published to coincide with the artist’s visiting fellowship at the Photogra
Trade Review
“The book has a cast of larger than life characters, evocative photographs and archive images, which together allow us to share an intimate experience through words and pictures.”,
- The Telegraph, December 13, 2013
“Her images are quiet, understated and yet extremely evocative.”,
-PhotoMonitor, November 16, 2013
