Nudes nominee

You could describe my series 'Ecology' as a 'fallen body of work'. Ecology is about our world and the place of humanity within it - a beautiful yet polluting creature. The images play with growth and disruption of growth, with ‘utopia’ and its opposite, dystopia. It is an expression of a troubled outlook on the world, infusing a Biblical influence with a modern-day environmental interest. The human form intwines with the landscape, exploring the sinister vulnerability of humankind against mother nature. I feature locations of abandoned sea towns, a defunct laboratory, stark forests, fields and landscapes, and in all these images, I feature myself as the model also.

Mixing art and fashion photography, British artist Miss Aniela (Natalie Dybisz b. 1986) creates a fine balance of contemporary creativity. Her work centres on a fusion of traditional imagery and digitally enhanced motifs, interweaving in a surreal composition.

Miss Aniela began in 2006 as a self-portraitist, her ‘Self-Gazing’ series becoming quickly invited for numerous exhibitions and art fairs in London, Madrid, North & South America. Through ten years Miss Aniela has evolved her passion for surrealism in the collection ‘Surreal Fashion’, where Miss Aniela pictures contemporary models with a reference to Renaissance and Dutch masters, shooting in stately home settings across Europe and USA. Larger-than-life characters dominate a dreamlike tableaux of chandeliers, taxidermy and four-poster beds; motifs for another, utopic world of the past that we long to inhabit. Miss Aniela’s recent work also involves the ‘Face’ series, intricate laborious artworks merging large-scale faces with hundreds of paintings from art history.

Miss Aniela has been exhibited by the Saatchi Gallery, House of Parliament, Waldermarsudde Museum Stockholm and Vogue Italia in Milan; and in numerous media including BBC, Plastik Magazine, Yahoo, The Metro and NY Arts.