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Interview with artist Richard Ansett

Richard Ansett is a photographer who is gaining much acclaim in the international art scene. He has artwork on display at the National Portrait Gallery and has displayed at many high profile exhibitions. Lets get to know Richard Ansett a bit better:

1. Background of yourself/Biography of yourself up until present day

I was born in 1966, adopted into a middle class familly in south England. I have no knowledge of my genetic familly history. I went to KIAD breifly and since then i have worked comercially as a photographer in London which finances my personal projects.

2. Explain your style of art

We are a product of our environment, our dress, behaviour and body language. Our personality is shaped by the social and political landscape we inhabit and we wear the scars of our life experience clearly on view. Equally we attempt to influence the environment around us in an attempt to justify and substantiate our place in the world.

How we deal with our emotions defines us as individuals and creates our complex and unique visual personality.

My work whilst apparently social realistic is in fact not strictly truthful. They are creations at a moment of time; the subjects are not represented fairly. They’re stories are irrelevant; this is not documentary, they are exploited to communicate my own views and to discuss a bigger picture.

The portrait process is not democratic process; whilst there is obvious complicity, it is not collaboration.

The extreme emotions within us are manifest in a momentary glimpse of the lives of others. We are fascinated by examples of the extremities of others’ lives but this is merely an exploration of the limits of ourselves.

artist interview Richard Ansett
Richard Ansett

3. Who are your influences?

Otto Dix, Joel Peter Witkin, Irvin Penn, Jan Van Eyke, Cindy Sherman.

4. Where do you seek inspiration for your art?

I don't seek it so much, it feels more like an evolution of style and ideas from life; both learning from your own and observing and empathising with others'. I am drawn to investigate the emotional truth behind seemingly happy or positive events or behavior. I feel a responsibility to look for something hidden or comunicate an understanding of society outside of conventional parameters.

5. Where did your desire to become an artist come from?

I think we all at some point in our lives feel that we have something new to say about the world and want to express it; most of us become adults and grow out of it. I still have the need to share my thoughts and feelings about the world with others and I learned early that photography had a power to influence...

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