Leonora Hamill photographed empty studios in art schools and the result is her work ‘Art in Progress’ , an exploration of art schools across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
She focused succulence of the activities undertaken by the students, by using a large format camera and printed analogically, intentionally detailed, frontal and neutral.
Her images invite the spectator to enter the studios in these schools and observe the freshly used tools in their works, allowing us to imagine the artistic experimentation that take place there.
From this body of work emerge the similarities and contrasts, both didactic and atmospheric, of the many art schools she has photographed.
Her photos pursue an intense drama: artistic tensions present within these spaces, the people who have passed through them, and the stories from past and present etched into the walls of studios from Saigon to Santiniketan and Poznan to Tetouan.
The green of the chair contrasts with the rest of the items
An ancient board seems lost in this ghostly school, creating a mysterious ambiance
The statues seem to hide old feelings and ongoings
