Cragie Horsfield

Cragie Horsfield

Tate Britain, London

20th April 2018

Cragie Horsfield is an English, Turner Prze nominated artist who photographs his environments and the people around him. His work has a universal relatable aspect to it.

John Goto described this quality in his images:

“Horsfield’s people are singular and yet in them I recognise myself, I identify with them. These people contemplate the same things that we all do: their bodies, their sexuality, love, memories and death ... in these images we recognise in the voice of another our own experience, our joy, fear or whatever and through this bond we are saved from that existential isolation which threatens to envelop us.”

This personal connection through recognition and empathy is something that really interests me. I want to be able to recreate this feeling in my own work, relating to the intimacy of the images I produce through the medium and scale.

Although Horsfield’s work is produced on a large scale, I still want to produce small scale work, as I have experimented with a larger scale but personally feels it doesn't produce the same desired effect.