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Her new work explores the connections between optics and seeing, the shift from analogue to digital, relationships between different kinds of photographic practice and the encounter between an individual and an institution, between an artist and a scientist. Objects in the Field develops the artist's interest in exploring how light and darkness define and articulate our relationship to space. Rickett examines the legacy of some now obsolete astrophysical research conducted in the 1980s, and constructs or re-imagines a set of different narrative

Sophy Rickett is a visual artist based in London, working with photography, video and sound installation. In 2011 and 2012 Sophy Rickett made regular visits to the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University as an Associate Artist. Her new photographs are a response to meeting a retired fellow of the Institute, the scientist Dr Roderick Willstrop. Rickett has produced a remarkable series of large-scale photographs inspired by the negatives produced from the Three Mirror Telescope designed and built by Dr Willstrop.

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​Artist
​Retoucher

Objects In The Field
​Cambridge
​Sophy Rickett
​Martin Smith​

voices that are at times contradictory, or at odds with each other. Martin’s role in this project was mainly as technical superviser and colour specialist, restoring the negatives, enhancing the stars, compsoiting and colour grading the images. “I changed the appearance of the Observatory photograph (far left) from day to night, by compositing one of Dr Willstrop’s astrophysical study’s into the day sky, creating an unearthly and paradoxical combination. slightly reminiscent of Magritte’s ‘Empire of Light’”.

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