March 2002

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Whitehall

A woman sits quietly alone in an empty Chinese restaurant with her back to us. Her isolation is emphasised by the unoccupied places around her and the partially open door, which perhaps suggests that someone has just left. The profoundly still atmosphere is ruffled slightly by the sweep of her grey-streaked hair and its echo in the gentle swish of fish tails in the painted mural. A muted palette of blue-greys, greens and white permeates the image, broken intermittently by the vivid orange splashes of the fish and table legs, and by the shiny black lacquer table top. Starkey’s photograph is titled with the date it was taken, without reference to the subject.  

Hannah Starkey was born in Belfast. She studied at the Royal College of Art in London. She won the St James Group Photography Prize 2002 and was shortlisted for the prestigious Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize in 2001. She has exhibited throughout the UK and in Israel and Italy.

Places

Subjects

painting (as Subject), ashtray, genre, koi, woman, 21st century costume, fan, lamp, fork, spoon, cafe, stool, table (as Subject), public interior

Materials & Techniques

photograph (as object name), C-type photograph

Artist

Hannah Starkey (1971 - )

Title

March 2002

Edition

Special A/P

Date

2002

Medium

C-type photographic print mounted on aluminium

Dimensions

height: 122.00 cm, width: 183.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Maureen Paley / Interim Art, August 2002

Inscription

verso on label: Hannah Starkey

Provenance

Interim Art Ltd., London

GAC number

17727