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| Billy Conklin | |
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Billy Conklin was born in Leeds in 1976, and currently lives and works in London. His work has been exhibited abroad extensively. Conkln received an Arts Council Research and Development Grant in 2004 and is a finalist for the 2006 Prinzhorn Prize Award. |
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Conklin was born in Leeds, but brought up in Liverpool part of a working class family. At the age of 16 he rode his bike all the way to London to attend a summer youth program at Goldsmith's College of Art. He stayed on for the regular term, having lied about his age and credentials. He was soon found out and dismissed. He then interviewed at the Royal College of Art and was accepted under their painting program. Later to be dismissed from that college for brawling with a professor during a sexual encounter. Due to his defence, Conklin was expelled but without charges: “I never believed she was resisting. We were in the back of a mini-Cooper and I thought she was struggling to find a comfortable position.” |
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Is London Burning
2005 |
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| Within the first 24 hours of the July subway bombings in London, artist Billy Conklin was observing and taking pictures. The series Is London Burning is Conklin’s record of the emotional gamut he witnessed — rage, sorrow, disbelief and fear. The photos speak more eloquently than any editor’s editorial or any politician’s speech. |
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May Ready to Cry
2005 |
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| Portraits taken within 24 hrs
of the July transit bombings in London |
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Glove Lady
2005 |
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| On July 7th there were three terrorist bombings in the London underground system. People were killed. People were hurt. People maimed. And the next day, all the other people went on with their lives. But there were changes. Small changes. These other people were affected by not being directly affected. And Conklin wanted to record these imperceptible changes with his camera. A glimmer of sadness carried in the corner of an eye. Of doubt, of anticipation for the future. Even of anger and defiance. He wanted to document their faces and body language in order to be read by a larger audience that, in the end, would come to share these same doubts and apprehensions. |
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Girl with Blue Hair
2005 |
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| Portraits taken within 24 hrs of the July transit bombings in London. |
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Terror Exercise No. 14
2005 |
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| Conklin had also found out about a terror response exercise held by the government in London. There were 200 role-playing victims in a terror exercise here, feigning a range of injuries. The second part of Conklin’s project includes some of those actors who’d performed as casualties in this terror exercise. He brought them into his studio and asked them to recreate their responses to flying debris and chemical agents and the like. Whatever was their specialty. The resulting images were both horrific and comical at once.
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Terror Exercise No. 18
2005 |
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| A large debris pile itself, complete with crushed cars and a bus, was erected near the station where much of the action took place. Rumor has it that this simulated attack was happening at the same exact time as the actual bomb blasts. |
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Head Shot
2005 |
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| Following the unfortunate incident of July 22nd, Conklin invited photographer Missy Wiggins to collaborate on a portrait of the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes being shot in the head by police. |
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| All work is 14x11 inches, and $600 each on archival watercolor paper. Billy Conklin is currently living in Detroit, serving a two-year residency at the Museum of New Art (MONA) and you may contact him at: detroitmona@aol.com |
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