When I think of Giles Revell, I think of a pioneer in photography - someone who continues to innovate and inspire with original imagery. Much of his work carries an underlying theme, a search for the essence of his subjects - often his images uncover an unseen property of the thing he is photographing, something that is at the heart of that thing's beauty.
Medicinal Plants: The plants included in the project all bear medicinal properties. CT Scanning was adopted as a unique way of representing the flora to emphasise their clinical usage rather than their aesthetic beauty. The plants were digitally sectioned across defined planes revealing their anatomical form.
Movement Sculptures: This work is the result of an on going collaboration between Giles revell and Ben Koppel. It is about the creation of sculptural form from a dancers interpretation of specific pieces of music.
Insects: Sponsored by NESTA to produce a body of work drawing inspiration from the collections of the Natural History Museum, Giles created a series of images highlighting the myriad wonders of the insect world. An exhibition, 'Insect Techtonics', featured twelve huge prints and debuted at the NHM to widespread acclaim before touring venues across the world. Prints from the series are in the permanent collections of both the NHM and the V&A.
Fish Deconstruction: The project is the result of another collaboration with the Natural History Museum. A gradual transformation is made from an easily recogniseable skeletal fish into a reduced graphic representation of the structure over the series of eight images.
It relates to the work of a paleontologist who will forensically piece organisms back together from fragmented evidence.
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