Fine Art nominee

This works basis was to explore to explicit nature to which we grasp to youth; we all remember it. Yet to be that age is to be young, naive and have the world at your feet. Lolita treads somewhere on the cusp between childhood and adulthood, a liminal zone that leaves her susceptible to being further pulled this way and that, subject to a blueprint of changing bodies and desires. This work sits on the cusp of where a girl is available and when she is not, Lolita lust. Using the same ideals as much of the fictional character from the 1955 novel, Lolita, I have created an erotic cliché around them, not only are they Lolitas, they are us, they are me. I get a glimpse of that younger self through all the representation of Lolita; I remember how I wanted to appear as a teenager, trying on different mantels of self-conscious sexuality for the first time. Nostalgic and pleasuring it is to be able to revisit the sense of youth within this work and really push the limits of which we as girls, females and women have been subjected to. This work in its basis was to deal

Keeley is a Fine Art photographer based in the North West of England.

As an artist she has always defined herself as such, photography is just the medium that she chooses to use to create her art. Her portraits define her personality as much as the subject she's photographing. Her love for timeworn paintings and long-standing literature, conjures ideas of eccentricity combined with romanticism, she believes there are no limits in her work and tries to push into the psyche of the viewer.

Group Exhibitions

June 2016 Unfold, Old Granada Studios, Manchester

July 2016 Incandescent16, Hoxton Arches, London



Bibliography

Jan 2016 Gebruder Grimm, Self published Zine (print)

Feb 2016 The Pupils Sphere, Lo-Lee-Tah (online)

Feb 2016 Splash & Grab, Weekly Selection (online)

April 2016 Inconnu Magazine, Style of a Certain Age (online)

June 2016 Incandescent16, Collective Publication (print)

June 2016 British Journal of Photography –‘On the cusp of when a girl is available’ (online)

July 2016 62nd Floor Analogue Magazine, Lo-Lee-Tah (print)

Aug 2016 TRIP mag, Rebellion (online)

Oct 2016 Shoot Film, Featured Artist: Keeley Bentley (online)

Dec 2016 DRECK magazine, Lo-Lee-Tah (print)

Dec 2016 JM Art Space, The Sexuality of a Female (online)