Lindsay Seers

Constructs

It is impossible to know it until its over but then it is a stranger.. Everything has to grow all at once in these works. It is a dance of leaps and stumbles that constantly have to be rethought - readjusted. It does not even end with its 'completion' - it lays just born and...

Film Still, S/He is still inside you

The Letter Paintings

Materials: paper, card, paint, ink, felt tip, pencil, inkjet prints from Seers' original drawings, glazed box frames 70cm x 56cm Letter to A  Sold Letter to N  Sold Other works in this series available see below. (For all enquiries contact [email protected]) When does an artwork begin? Almost twenty years ago, a set of events unfolded...

Optograms (mouth camera) 1997 – 2020

The title Optogram* is a generic name given to a series of mouth photograph works by the artist which use the original piece of photographic paper that was put into her mouth to capture an image. These human camera images are often exhibited alongside a documentary photograph (shot with a mechanical camera). These accompanying documentary...

Prints and Drawings

Human Camera, Bodies, Vampires, Aliens, Ghosts | 1996 – 2020

A series of photographs taken with the mouth all approx 6cm x 4cm Becoming a camera has its consequences. Days spent trying to cannibalise herself in a hand mirror revealed that no matter how hard she tried to hold the photographic paper still in her teeth it buckled and distorted, and so at every attempt...

The Lost Room

Lost Room is a series of photographic works shown in the Museo Del Barro in Ascunción, Paraguay Text by M.A.Penwill These photographic works are often in pairs, all are mounted in deep box frames with an accompanying text framed in the same way as the image (the texts are integral to the work. Mixed with...

Two differently coloured eyes 2013 – 2019

Exhibited in Quad, Derby, UK; Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway (long listed for Deutsche Börse Photography Prize). (For all enquiries contact [email protected]) These portraits show people with a rare condition called tetragrametic chimerism, which is caused by the fusion of two fertilized eggs (of non-identical twins) at a very early stage of gestation in the womb. A...

Mouth Camera (Black Bag) 2001- 2019

Black Bag is a series of works based on the theory of optograms (this is the name given to images that were believed to be etched onto the retina. This idea came from experiments published by scientists Franz Boll and Willy Kühne in 1876/77 which seemed to prove a photograph could be taken by the eye)....

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Suffering 2017 – 2018

Materials: wood, corrugated metal, benches, paint, HD dual projection onto a house shaped screen, stereo sound with amplifier and subwoofer, objects and paintings by Leo Kelly. Commissioned by Unconformity Festival and Australian Government, exhibited in MONA. (For all enquiries contact [email protected]) MONA text: "The work invites visitors to experience and admire the work and life...

Negative photographic works 1999 – 2017

Medium: Cross-processed slide film printed as cibachromes mounted on aluminium. Some Editions Sold or in Laure Genillard collection If we loosen an idea of a binary relationship between positive and negative as simply being opposites and consider the two states to be a difference in kind rather than degree, then in the negative photograph (the...

Automated Ventriloquist Dummies

For more information go to Exhibitions: http://www.lindsayseers.info/exhibition_node/422 Sailors Bill Sold Candy Cannibal  Sold Other dummies available, click on View Work . (For all enquiries contact [email protected])

Human Camera (IMMA)

Seers' is the first artist to use this technique of using the mouth cavity directly as a camera, her work on this began in 1995 when she was working at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London and more substantial experiments were made possible by the Artist's Work Programme at The Irish Museum of...

The Act of Photographing (with the mouth)

Act of photographing with the mouth, 1997-2005. This collection of works concentrates on the act of photographing and the photographer (the event) rather than the object of the photograph itself. The works span a number of different themes but principally they reference the mouth camera as a sterile kiss - whereby the kiss becomes a...

Consuming the Past, Berlin (Mouth Camera Works)

Cycling around the city from historic site to sight - it was hard to digest. History was written large all over it, the burning of the books and so on. A postcard from a small shop pictured a giant statue of Marx but that had long since gone and was buried in the ground somewhere....

Human Camera (the first photos)

These images were the artist's first attempt at becoming a camera. In order to do this photographic paper was cut into strips small enough to go into her mouth cavity. These slivers of paper were inserted in a blackened studio and lamps were used to expose the scenes on the paper. Traces of light bulbs,...