PENUMBRA Members Gallery | ODETTE ENGLAND
Love Notes is an ongoing performative photographic series. It involves me sending film negatives to my parents, folded into tiny notes. The negatives, shot by me, depict places in and around our former farmlands. Upon receipt, my parents unfold and ‘read’ the negatives, and return them to me with handwritten notes about what they recognize in holding the negatives up to the light, and what memories the images evoke. The resulting 20 x 24” silver gelatin darkroom prints are embedded with fold lines and wear typical of cherished love notes that have been saved, folded and unfolded, read and reread over the years.
Odette England received an MFA with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design and a PhD from the Australian National University. Her work has shown in more than 90 solo, two-person and group exhibitions worldwide. Notable venues include: George Eastman House (Rochester, NY); Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL); New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, NM); Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Fort Wayne, IN); RISD Museum (Providence, RI); Colorado Photographic Arts Center (Denver, CO); State Library of South Australia (Adelaide, South Australia); Center for Photography at Woodstock (Woodstock, NY); Perth Center for Photography (Perth, Western Australia); MacDonald Stewart Art Center, University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada); Durham Art Gallery (Durham, England, UK).
England’s work has appeared in American Photo, Photograph, The Brooklyn Rail, Photo District News, Hotshoe International, the British Journal of Photography, Australian Art Monthly, Musee magazine, GUP magazine, Lenscratch and Feature Shoot, among others. Awards England has received include the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Photographers Award (UK winner, twice) and the CENTER $5,000 Project Launch Award. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Australian Photobook of the Year. England is also a recipient of the HotShoe Magazine Photofusion Photography Award and The Print Center Honorary Council Award for Excellence.
Recent artist residencies include the prestigious invitation-only Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency in Captiva, Florida, where England collaborated with the artist Jennifer Garza-Cuen. England has given lectures and critiques at Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Brown University, the School of Visual Arts in New York, Amherst College, the Penumbra Foundation, Kenyon College, the University of Melbourne, and the Art Gallery of South Australia, among others.
England is the director of the Winter Garden Photograph project, for which she received a grant from the Mellon Foundation. This project includes publication of her first edited volume Keeper of the Hearth with a foreword by Charlotte Cotton (Schilt Publishing, 2020). England is a permanent US resident and lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island and New York City. Her work is represented in the US (east coast only) by Klompching Gallery.
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