Quotes
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY 'Imagine Cecil Beaton's theatrical excess combined with the inspired imagination and DIY aesthetic of the doyenne of British colour photography of the 1930's, Madame Yevonde, and you have the wonderful rich narrative world of The Girls.' Brett Rogers, Director
LONDON EVENING STANDARD 'Sexy, irreverent post-feminism. Think Angela Carter crossed with Cindy Sherman'
TIME OUT LONDON 'Seriously Weird'
AMELIA'S MAGAZINE 'Colourful and playful with a rumbling of darkness ensures childhood naivety is undercut by a dramatic and slightly haunted adult perspective'
LOVE IS THE LAW MAGAZINE 'Imagine a quintessentially English answer to Cindy Sherman, but double, and with something of the wit and chemistry of French and Saunders distilled by a camera'
SELFRIDGES 'The Girls are re-inventing photographic story-telling in the most fun and irreverent way.' Linda Hewson, Head of Creative
LE COOL MAGAZINE 'The Girls dress as nurses or baroque courtesans, they pose in big photos staged like Jeff Wall pieces, but sillier. Their Photostory about the Cinderella slipper is a laugh. Life-size straw dolls in bed explore female relationships. Get into their mental bed and indulge in a strange, funny, guilty visual feast'
LONDONIST '..sometimes attractive, sometimes disturbing and sometimes humorous. Some of the photographs are good enough to eat, but they sufficiently highlight some of the less palatable issues about the place of women in visual culture'
CURATOR/ARTIST HEIDI WIGMORE 'When I encountered the Girls ensconced in their satin bed I was reminded of the dusty old Sleeping Beauty waxwork automaton that used to live inside the Crooked House at Southend-on Sea until the late '70s..her chest used to rise and fall and I imagined I could see her tremble and heave with every pulse.. (On 'Diamonds & Toads')
LONDON EVENING STANDARD 'Sexy, irreverent post-feminism. Think Angela Carter crossed with Cindy Sherman'
TIME OUT LONDON 'Seriously Weird'
AMELIA'S MAGAZINE 'Colourful and playful with a rumbling of darkness ensures childhood naivety is undercut by a dramatic and slightly haunted adult perspective'
LOVE IS THE LAW MAGAZINE 'Imagine a quintessentially English answer to Cindy Sherman, but double, and with something of the wit and chemistry of French and Saunders distilled by a camera'
SELFRIDGES 'The Girls are re-inventing photographic story-telling in the most fun and irreverent way.' Linda Hewson, Head of Creative
LE COOL MAGAZINE 'The Girls dress as nurses or baroque courtesans, they pose in big photos staged like Jeff Wall pieces, but sillier. Their Photostory about the Cinderella slipper is a laugh. Life-size straw dolls in bed explore female relationships. Get into their mental bed and indulge in a strange, funny, guilty visual feast'
LONDONIST '..sometimes attractive, sometimes disturbing and sometimes humorous. Some of the photographs are good enough to eat, but they sufficiently highlight some of the less palatable issues about the place of women in visual culture'
CURATOR/ARTIST HEIDI WIGMORE 'When I encountered the Girls ensconced in their satin bed I was reminded of the dusty old Sleeping Beauty waxwork automaton that used to live inside the Crooked House at Southend-on Sea until the late '70s..her chest used to rise and fall and I imagined I could see her tremble and heave with every pulse.. (On 'Diamonds & Toads')