Last chance to see Kate Potter & James Tye at LSE

16 June -18 July 2008

Organised in collaboration with TAG Fine Arts

The inaugural exhibition at the LSE Atrium gallery by LSE Arts (in collaboration with TAG Fine Arts) features two striking bodies of photographic portraiture by Kate Potter and James Tye.

Both artists used Metro’s Premier Digital C-Type service to produce large format colour prints. In Kate Potter’s large-scale portraits, domestic non-breed cats are depicted using a genre of photography commonly associated with the anthropological categorisation of the human subject. Following similar rules, Potter’s has her feline subjects stare directly at the camera to meet our gaze in a decidedly deadpan manner.
James Tye’s ongoing series of portraits, Still Standing comprise portraits of boxers, created by way of a temporary photographic studio set up in a boxing club. Following their training sessions and fights, boxers would, on their way to the changing rooms, be invited by Tye to pose briefly for a photograph. Without the familiar tropes associated with the spectacle of boxing, these images provide an alternative, but equally fascinating, insight into the world of the pugilist.

Through their respective approaches, Potter and Tye capture both the particular and the unexpected characteristics of their sitters. For Potter this manifests itself by way of her subjects assured gaze and uncanny persona, whereas in Tye’s images, notions of vigour and bravado, make way for a moment of vulnerability. Despite their apparent differences, together Potter and Tye’s photographs also explore the ambivalent nature of photography itself, in terms of its power to capture real or imagined identity.

Southpaw is organised by LSE Arts in collaboration with TAG Fine Arts.

For information on the exhibition please contact: Richard Hylton, Arts Co-ordinator
T: 44 (0)20 852 3793 or arts@lse.ac.uk
Opening Times: Monday - Friday 10 - 6pm

Atrium Gallery
LSE
Old Building
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
T: 44 (0)20 7852 3793
arts@lse.ac.uk
www.lse.ac.uk/arts

For more information on TAG Fine Arts: www.tagfinearts.com