Miss Nadin, Farmer, Staffordshire Moorlands, 1980 was part of a large body of work, Small Farms in Staffordshire, produced from 1976-1980. These photographs documented women farmers, and was a documentation of disappearing rural life. It was one of the Half Moon Gallery touring exhibitions. The work has been exhibited at the RCA, London, The Half Moon Gallery London, Sunderland Arts Centre, Ogilvy, Benson and Mather, London and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Images from the exhibition were bought by the V&A and West Midland Arts for their collections.
JUDY HARRISON is a photographer, writer, curator, lecturer, and cultural activist who has published and exhibited widely. Born in Stoke-on –Trent 1953, UK, she trained at Manchester Polytechnic, gaining BA Hons Photography, and at the Royal College of Art, MA Photography. She was Founder and Director of the Mount Pleasant Photography Workshop, Southampton, a member of Format Picture Agency and Photofusion Picture Agency, London. She was Principal Lecturer and Course Leader of the BA and MA Photography courses at the University of Portsmouth. She is currently Principal Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth. Her publications include Our Faces, Our Spaces: Photography, Community and Representation (John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, 2014).
8 x 10" on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper