Here are the links I used to collect information about Briggs. The following sites are very helpful and full of useful facts that I used to achieve an overall description and analysis about Briggs.
Jonny Briggs was born in 1985 in London. He is a very young and influential photographer who is unique in his style and technique. Briggs brings something very different to the subject because of his personal interest. His work contains a strong link with family and his personality is represented thoroughly throughout his work. Jonny uses the search for his lost childhood as an interesting subject to base his photography on. He uses his family a lot within his projects.
Portal, 2011 — My Mother wearing an up-scaled mask of her own head, painted in black gloss 102 x 139cm Photography; C-type Lambda print, aluminium mounted and framed in black
Briggs has a wide varity of images that he has produced. All of them containing a completly seperate meaning, however based on family.
Into the Black, 126 x 121cm, 2011, Photography; C-type Lambda print aluminium mounted and framed in black. Briggs’ photos are very surreal and abstract, with each one containing form and shape in parculiar ways. He uses shadows and space to symolize different things.His images are very unusaul and unique to capture Briggs’ unusal interest.
Un-seeing, 115 x 180cm, 2012, Photography; C-type Lambda print, framed in black
Regeneration, 171 x 171cm as a diamond, 2012, Photography; C-type Lambda print mounted on aluminium.Regeneration means to be born again, and I believe this is what Briggs is trying to communicate through this photo. It is an image of Briggs’ mother curled into a foetal position. Biggs uses the blankets that he use to wrap himself in when he was young, to protectively cocoon his mother in. When Biggs is explaining the process behind the photograph, he says “I see it as again quite a religious piece, the fact that the feet are visible and that I have chosen a diamond shape references the crucifixion.” This links to the name Regeneration, because he is using the event of the crucifixion of Christ to explain the photo he has created. Briggs had used the event of Christ dying and being born again, as a template for his photo. Briggs also describes the image as flesh like, “The blanket I’ve used also reminds me of the body, it is flesh like in color and the tears in it appear wound-like. My mother’s body beneath the blanket also seems to me rather meat like, organ like, her feet the valves and her body a beating heart.” This again links to the name Regeneration because Briggs is using human like features to describe the image. It could symbolism the creation of a new born with the description of a “beating heart” and “flesh like”. The image is very austetically pleasing because of the shape and from that Briggs creates with the use of the diamond shape in the centre of the rectangle. I also really like how he used the light to eluminate his mum in the middle, whereas in contrast the rest of the images is in shadow.
Jonny Briggs Inspiration…
Here is the link that I used to collect informqtion about Francis Bacon, who I believe to be a an influence into Briggs’ work.
Francis Bacon was born on the 28th October 1909. Bacon was a homosexual and was expelled from his home in 1926. He also had a strong physical attraction towards his father which heightened the tensions between the family. At the age of 23 Bacon painted his first original painting, called the Crucifixion, 1933. The painting is very ghostly looking. The name Crucifixion suits the artwork because It looks like a human holding up their hands while standing on a platform. Here are more of Bacon’s paintings. I personally believe that Francis Bacon and Jonny Briggs are very similar in the way they work and how they use their past as an influence for their art. Briggs uses his photography as a way to get back lost time with his parents. He sees it as a way to improve the relationships within his family. Bacon uses his art to express his troubled childhood as well. He is full of Anxiety and depression and uses his art as a demonstration of what he is feeling.
Self Portrait by Francis BaconStudy for a Portrait 1952 Francis Bacon 1909-1992ntings.
1933. The painting is very ghostly looking. The name Crucifixion suits the artwork because It looks like a human holding up their hands while standing on a platform. Here are more of Bacon’s paintings. I personally believe that Francis Bacon and Jonny Briggs are very similar in the way they work and how they use their past as an influence for their art. Briggs uses his photography as a way to get back lost time with his parents. He sees it as a way to improve the relationships within his family. Bacon uses his art to express his troubled childhood as well. He is full of Anxiety and depression and uses his art as a demonstration of what he is feeling.
