Lynne Collins

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VIDEO: Lynne Collins explains the lengths she will go to in order to get a picture.

VIDEO: Lynne Collins explains the lengths she will go to in order to get a picture.

VIDEO: Lynne Collins explains the lengths she will go to in order to get a picture.

Lynne Collins began her career as a sculptor and for twenty years worked in the film and television industry as an artist and model maker. She went on to make short art films and then began to explore the medium of still photography.

It is her experience of working on film sets and also her childhood memories of spending time with her mother, a buyer in the film industry, that Lynne draws upon when making her photographs. Using abandoned Victorian buildings as her backdrop, Lynne superimposes a different image, often in complete contrast with her found location, to make a new narrative. In her series "On The Edge of Perception" Lynne brings together two images, one of a woodland, the other an empty interior offering the possibility for nature to rejuvenate such forgotten places.

In her most recent series "The Trespasser" she has returned to the discarded spaces of derelict buildings and taking inspiration from the seventeenth Dutch masters has overlaid these bleak interiors with sumptuous still lifes of wine and food, which are also abandoned. By bringing these two scenes together Lynne is seeking to offer a commentary on modern life as one of over-consumption and decadent wastefulness.

Her photography series have been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2008 and 2007 and at the Royal West of England show "Through the Lens", 2008. Lynne was short listed for the Sovereign European Art Prize in 2008. She has also exhibited at the Somerset House Embankment Gallery, 2008, Shoreditch House, London, 2008 and Urban Art, Brixton, London in 2005.

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