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WENDY BEVAN's St Valentine
- Wendy has worked for the likes of Italian Vogue, Vogue, Pop Magazine, ID to name but a few.
Although best known as a photographer, Wendy has always pursued a multi-disciplinary approach to her artistry. The theatre, music and performance have always been a central part of her artistic oeuvre. Wendy has performed at many leading venues and events, including: ICA, the Hackney Empire and the Edinburgh Festival. She has also worked with a variety of top theatre companies as a performer, such as Punch Drunk and the Rififi Theatre Company.
The Antelope necklace and the leopard watch features in Wendy Bevan's shots.
Wendy Bevan
Valentine's Day may be associated with fertility and love, and the pre-Roman festival of Lupercalia, celebrated to turn away evil spirits and purify new life in Spring. It also marks the day martyred Saint Valentine was buried on north of Rome. Bevan's series Valentine, draws from these themes among others, while her Flora series, does not only stand for Floralia, the festival of spring, but also flirts with death unable to contemplate it.
Finding inspiration in the Italian old masters of the Baroque and the Renaissance, to Vienna secession artists and the French fin-de-siecle, Bevan finds her own way to praise the woman. In one of her series, she explores the allegory of Death and the Maiden, flirting with decadent eroticism and symbolism, enhancing erotic overtones and exploring the ethereal beauty of her female muses as they are overlooked by death, which stand as an agent of erotic seduction.
Curated by Gabriella Daris
Art at Blacks Club
Gabriella Daris & James Putnam
Blacks Club, 67 Dean Street
London W1D 4QH, UK
gabriella@blacksclub.com
Love
Bex