ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE:
TRISH MORRISSEY
Interviewed by Richard West
Location: Artist's home, Somerset
Date: June 2012
Trish Morrissey (Portrait by Pete Boyd)
Chapter 13:
(Chapter 13 of 13, Running Time: 00:11:48)
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Ladybird from 'The Failed Realist' (2011).
Party Girl from 'The Failed Realist' (2011).
Pretty Ogre from 'The Failed Realist' (2011).
Chapter 13 Synopsis:
- Glad when people recognize there is humour in her work, they are also macabre.
- Has had to learn to speak to strangers.
- Skill of posing is about how you set your face.
- Important to entertain subjects by acting the buffoon while setting up picture.
- For 'Front' only asked families that looked like they were having a good time.
- Current project inspired by tensions around health problems of new child.
- Current project proving hard to finish.
- Wants to go back and find pictures made of her while she was working at the Independent.
Ladybird from 'The Failed Realist' (2011).
Party Girl from 'The Failed Realist' (2011).
Pretty Ogre from 'The Failed Realist' (2011).
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