Student Prize Winner - Jill Quigley

Elysium Gallery are pleased to announce that the winner of Espy Photography Student Prize is Jill Quigley!

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Jill Quigley is a photographer from County Donegal, Ireland.  She is currently working on her masters project, Cottages of Quigley's Point, which is a series of interventions in abandoned rural houses.  She was included in the British Journal of Photography's 'Ones to Watch' edition in January, and is Firecracker's featured artist for March.

Cottages of Quigley's Point is a project about exploring and re-imagining my local area in Co. Donegal, through staging interventions in abandoned farmhouses in the neighbourhood.  It is common to read images of derelict cottages in a nostalgic light, celebrating the simplicity of an older way of life with a romantic attachment to hearth and home.  This romanticising tendency precludes the encountering of such spaces as they actually are, as part of the current landscape.  These redundant interiors allow for appropriation and disruption by adding bright colour and movement, creating a temporary fantastical representation of this aspect of the community.


Further information can be found on Wired and Firecracker

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