Price range: £160.00 through £180.00
RICHARD BUTCHINS
Richard is an artist, award-winning filmmaker and writer who travels the hard shoulder of art. No training, just graft. Disabled and autistic, he works across photography, installation and broadcast, testing how images frame power, beauty and the body.
His documentaries for BBC, Channel 4 and ITV earned the British Journalism Award and the Scope Disability Journalist of the Year in 2022. In galleries, he constructs baroque, in-camera scenes. No digital composites; objects and light do the heavy lifting. He chooses difficult truths over polite narratives and writes like someone who has run out of patience with modernity. He lives by the sea and he does not have a cat.
DETAILS
As a photographer, Richard is known for his interpretions and translations that rework the symbolism of Vanitas paintings into modern symbolic representations of exclusion and otherness.
This collection zooms in sharply on the details in those photographs: the broken dolls, a blurred rabbit mask, dying flowers.
Richard says, “These small images are details from larger tableaux and shown without their parents. They’re not excerpts, so much as proof that every picture hides many other pictures. I build in layers, so the fragments stand on their own: composition, gesture, light, all tightened to a sharper point.
