UN, Geneva

Joy Gregory (1959 - )

Digital photographic print (Lambda print)

2001

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: France
    City: Paris
    Place: British Embassy

    This is one of six photographs by Joy Gregory from her series, 'Cinderella Tours Europe'. Re-inventing the fairy tale, a pair of golden shoes is photographed in front of familiar landmarks in Geneva, Lisbon, Venice, Versailles, Paris and London. In each image, Gregory explores the idea that Cinderella is transformed into a Caribbean citizen who yearns to travel to a romanticised Europe.

    Gregory developed this idea after interviews she made during a research trip around the Caribbean. She discovered that people had seen little of their own region but dreamed of visiting former colonial cities. Gregory's work questions ideas of national and cultural identity, travel and tourism in the light of current trends of globalisation.

  • About the artist
    Joy Gregory was born in Bicester in 1959. She studied at Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art in London. She is currently Senior Lecturer at the London College of Printing. Gregory lives and works in London.
  • Explore
    Places
    Switzerland, Geneva
    Subjects
    sculpture (as Subject), travel & tourism, topography, shoe, fairy tale, path, garden, lawn
    Materials & Techniques
    photograph (as object name), colour photograph, digital print, lambda print
  • Details
    Artist
    Joy Gregory (1959 - )
    Title
    UN, Geneva
    Portfolio Title
    Cinderella Tours Europe
    Edition
    1/3
    Date
    2001
    Medium
    Digital photographic print (Lambda print)
    Dimensions
    height: 83.70 cm, width: 83.70 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, from the Organisation for Visual Arts Ltd, March 2002
    Inscription
    verso, bottom left: Cinderella Tours Europe - UN, Geneva ; bottom right: Joy Gregory - 2001 / 1/3
    Provenance
    Organisation for the Visual Arts, London
    GAC number
    17659