HOT SHOE
The Birth of PHOTO-LONDON
These are not easy questions to answer simply, so, what better way to get a snapshot of the commercial world of photography than by visiting photo-london, billed as the first annual photography fair in Britain. Claiming to be "a showcase for the world's best photographically based art", this new event announced its arrival on the art market scene last...
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PHOTOGRAPHY QUARTERLY
Synthetic Lightning: Complex Simulations of Nature
Photographers today can explore chance by pursuing numerous unconventional methods of printing and developing. Chemical reactions and surface tension can account for some of the...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Under the Moon
Through specially devised photo processes, the English artist Susan Derges looks romantically at the moon and how it plays on water. In what is part photogram, or cameraless image, and part photograph made in the darkroom, she sumberged light-sensitive paper in water, created ripples in the water with sound vibrations and hung branches overhead whose shadows were recorded on the...
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THE ART NEWSPAPER
Susan Derges
In the 1990s, Susan Derges began making elaborately labour-intensive photograms (cameraless photographs) of water, mainly of the Taw river in Dartmoor. "Taken" at night, these involved submerging light-sensitive paper in the river, the exposing it with a...
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NEXT LEVEL
Interview with David Chandler
Susan Derges's new work Under the Moon was shown at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York during January and February of this year. Here David Chandler, Director of Photoworks, asks her about this work and her evolving engagement with nature and natural...
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NICHIDO CONTEMPORARY ART, TOKYO DESIGN CENTER
Transience of Nature
My experience of Susan Derges, in both our conversations and through her art, have a strong, coherent connection. I am always struck by how her descriptions of the recent events of her life are intertwined with her profound acceptance that all things happen for a reason, there for us to imbue with symbolic meaning and position within life-long...
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MODERN PAINTERS
Susan Derges
The swallows were flitting around outside Southern Cornwall's Newlyn Gallery the last time Susan Derges exhibited her life-sized photogram investigations into water forms. 1999 will be a very different kind of year for this...
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NATURE MAGAZINE
Derges's Designs
Nature is an alarmingly tough competitor for any artist. It parades endless succession of beguiling and elusive ffects whose subtlety and vitality present an enduring challenge to the inert media available to the painter and...
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NATURAL MAGIC
Artist Susan Derges has been conducting research towards new work at the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford. Natural Magic is the outcome of Derges's year-long residency in...
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WORLD ART MAGAZINE
Water World
"Well, basically, I've been using the landscape as an enormous darkroom," says Susan Derges matter-of-factly, as if describing and afternoon at the laundromat. Derges, whose innovative work in photography includes multiple self-portraits captured in water droplets that are frozen mid-air by a strobe, photograms of tadpoles swirling around in water and beez buzzing around bee hives, consistently produces work that marries art and science in a manner that is anything but...
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