Versailles
Digital photographic print (Lambda print)
2001
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About the work
- Location
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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.
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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.
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Explore
- Places
- France
- Subjects
- travel & tourism, topography, man, woman, shoe, fairy tale, topiary, garden, pool, palace, fountain, steps
- Materials & Techniques
- photograph (as object name), colour photograph, digital print, lambda print
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Details
- Artist
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Joy Gregory (1959 - )
- Title
- Versailles
- 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 from the Organisation for Visual Arts Ltd, April 2002
- Inscription
- verso, bottom left: Cinderella Tours Europe - Versailles ; bottom right: 1/3 Joy Gregory - 2001
- Provenance
- Organisation for the Visual Arts, London
- GAC number
- 17662