20 June 2014

The next AOP Online Exhibition features the work of Lorentz Gullachsen. It opens today (17th June) and runs until 15th July.

During the Stratford-upon-Avon Arts Festival, Gullachsen set up a pop-up studio in the town’s square complete with a screen that displayed the results as he shot his personal project, ‘Bards Town Portraits’.

Gullachsen was drawn towards faces that Shakespeare would have recognised and maybe used as the model for characters in his plays. Photographing the artists, production crew, civil dignitaries and by inviting members of the public who engaged with the festival, over 100 portraits form the collection of which this exhibition represents a selection.

The subjects were all required to wear velvet cloaks that obscured fashion and hopefully produced images that have a timeless quality, although lit with a cinematic and theatrical approach.

Go to link to see Lorentz’s work.