ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE:
TRISH MORRISSEY
Interviewed by Richard West
Location: Artist's home, Somerset
Date: June 2012
Trish Morrissey (Portrait by Pete Boyd)
Chapter 12:
(Chapter 12 of 13, Running Time: 00:12:21)
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Donna Plant, August 21st 2005, from the series 'Front'.
Hayley Coles, June 17th 2006, from the series 'Front'.
Heather Hancock, August 28th 2006, from the series 'Front'.
Chapter 12 Synopsis:
- 'Front' is series of photographs of families on beaches in which Trish has replaced a woman in the group.
- Normal codes of behavior are suspended on the beach.
- Became careful about who to ask in the family to get permission to make picture.
- Family also received a conventional portrait and were sent copy of book.
- Was pregnant at the time of making pictures and project was trying out different families.
- Was a chameleon quality to role she played in pictures, studied the woman she would replace and changed clothes to fit in.
- One woman responded that picture was 'as if she was dead' (and had been replaced by another woman).
- Pictures are disconcerting.
- Made audio work called 'There's You' based on interviews with her mother about family holidays.
Donna Plant, August 21st 2005, from the series 'Front'.
Hayley Coles, June 17th 2006, from the series 'Front'.
Heather Hancock, August 28th 2006, from the series 'Front'.
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